Word: ko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match, Leverett's pile-driving Jack Canning won the quickest bout of the night as he KO'd Dave Hoffman of Lowell in the first 40 seconds of round...
...Ko Ko Mo (CrewCuts; Mercury). Explosive, riffing treatment of what is apparently a grand passion. Eminently suitable for barroom backgrounds...
...began to investigate the various changes in word endings, found that they seemed to follow certain rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...
...victories by Francis Holmes of Dunster, John Canning of Leverett, Tony Murray of Leverett, and Dick Koch of Adams highlighted the first round trials of the inter-House boxing tournament yesterday at the IAB. Wyner, a Winthrop House middleweight, reached the finals in his division last year through KO's in all his matches. His knockout came after only 40 seconds of the first round...
...last week, after putting the family rice on to boil over her charcoal pot, Mrs. Ko II Nam took a housewife's chance and strolled out to pass the time with a neighbor in the alleys of Pusan's cluttered, teeming Yongju district. When Mrs. Ko returned, the rice had boiled over, the charcoal had spilled onto the floor, and the straw matting of her tiny shack was afire. Moments later the entire house was ablaze. As neighbors tried to put out the fire, a brisk wind whipped the flames against the houses next door, and soon they...