Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, a riot broke out in the Left benches. Socialist accused Communist of having "sold France." For inexplicable reasons the Communists objected to the accusation and, in the twinkling of an eye, the members of the two Parties were either yelling their heads off or doing their best to knock one another...
...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...
...fourth, when his famed right landed on Gibbons' jaw and rocked him for a moment. Gibbons, stung, concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until the end the bout was more like a race than a fight. Carpentier, in full retreat, was near a knock-out in the ninth and tenth rounds. In the ninth he fell without being hit and claimed an injured leg. At this point, Gibbons noticeably let up in his attack when Carp seemed pleading verbally with him in the last two rounds. Unsportsmanlike. Gibbons was decidedly the favorite of the crowd...
...sent out of this town to the effect that I am approaching the border line of physical wreckage is apple sauce-nothing but apple sauce, boys. . . . If any of the challenging kids-Harry Wills, Luis Firpo or Tom Gibbons-have an idea that I am not in shape to knock them dizzy, they are hereby invited to jump out to Los Angeles . . . I need sparring partners...
...type of delivery in which a swift ball is aimed at or close to the batter's head to shake his nerve, drive him away from the plate?or knock...