Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terrible Hoax." In the astonished silence, Sonny Liston stalked around the ring. Then came the angry, roaring boos from the 18,894 spectators. Many had not seen the knockout punch; those who had felt cheated. In 258 locations across the U.S., some 500,000 people, who had paid between $4 and $10 each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank...
...many cases of disease and death due to smallpox, typhus, plague or malaria, he said, there would have been virtual panic: "All the medical and public health resources of the nation would have been mustered." Why had syphilis been allowed to make such a comeback after the near knockout of the 19503? Dr. Brown answered his own question...
...best stories are superb revelations of character, the lord of vernacular, the laureate of dull lives, crass hopes and mean minds. The second Lardner that counted was a fellow of short nights and wild swoops and demented plunges, of parody and nonsense, of non sequiturs that on occasion proved knockout blows. Perhaps the most inspired of these-a daunted parent's reply to a child's bedeviling question-provided the title for Shut Up, He Explained, which restores the second Lardner to print with a mixed bag containing glittering tinsel as well as genuine treasures...
...first place. Dr. Alexander Schiff of the New York Athletic Commission insisted that "Paret entered the ring in top physical shape." But he had been knocked out twice in his three previous fights. A year ago, when he lost the welterweight title to Griffith in a 13-round knockout, it took his handlers several minutes to get him in condition to leave the ring. In a rematch last July, Paret regained the championship with an unpopular 15-round decision; at the end, his eyes were swollen shut and blood was streaming from his mouth. Then, stepping out of his class...
...knockout injury which he suffered in Saturday's fight against Emile Griffith has set off repercussions around the world...