Word: knockoute
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...blonde Ann Mallalieu, 21, daughter of a British Board of Trade minister, showed up in a black, bell-bottomed corduroy trouser suit to accept her election victory as president of the Cambridge Union, the university's 151-year-old debating society. "I think," said she, delivering the knockout, "that they voted for me as a person and not as a woman...
...hotter phase, the skies above North Viet Nam were thick with U.S. planes - and with Communist flak. U.S. pilots flew an average of 243 sorties a day, hitting several targets that they had never be fore been permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly three-fourths...
Howard Cossel, who made a pile verbally sparring with Clay (and losing most of the time) told the champ he liked him better this past year or so because he wasn't so loud. Somehow it's wrong to be loud and write poetry and predict the knockout round and tell off sportswriters and beat Sonny Liston so quickly and beat Ernie Terrell so brutally and become a Black Muslim and apply for exemption from the U.S. Army because you're a Muslim minister and because you object to the war in Vietnam. But it's worse, far worse...
...third he connected with a right to Folley's jaw, and in the fifth he fired a long series of left jabs in the challenger's face. That was his finest round. The sixth was again monotonous and the seventh dull until the four-punch explosion and knockout...
Harvard's Cassius Clay, Eliot's Steve Crosby, won his third consecutive 185-lb title in the day's most spectacular bout, a first-round knockout of Bill Crowe, also of Eliot...