Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make Gerry Cooney look as much like a heavyweight champion as Sly. Rocky Balboa's body is the public's perception of a fighter, while Cooney's is not." The results, as evidenced by this week's TIME cover, are something of a technical knockout. (One piece of equipment vital to the success: the box that the 5-ft. 10-in. Stallone is standing on to bring him into the picture with the 6-ft. 6-in. Cooney...
...port side ain't going to look like no ballerina. Doesn't everyone know what's going to happen in this fight? Cooney's going to knock Holmes out early, or he's not going to survive the stretch. One way or another, it's going to be a knockout. Period." So that's the whole fight, though not the whole fury...
Like wary boxers who had learned they could be hurt, Britain and Argentina traded cautious punches last week around the Falkland Islands. The military action was restrained: both sides drew blood, but neither tried to aim a knockout blow in their South Atlantic confrontation. The reason: there were continuing prospects for a diplomatic resolution of the six-week crisis...
That left Allard to deliver the knockout punch to Northeastern pitcher O'Leary, a two-run blast over the 340-foot sign in right field...
...quantities of Soviet surface-to-air missiles. The real shocker was the loss of 500 tanks, 400 on the Egyptian front alone. Dinitz implored me to keep the numbers secret from everyone except the President. If they were known, the Arab countries now standing aloof might join for a knockout blow...