Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant and graceful strides, bantering in a French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track railway...
...challenger was cocky. "When the old man begins to tire in the late rounds, that's when I'll take over," crowed muscular Kenny Lane. The old man was 32-year-old Joe Brown, who, almost unnoticed, has been lightweight champion of the world for nearly two years...
...bring himself to public notice by taking on any and all comers, and regularly belting them into unconsciousness. He flattened four straight challengers. Last week this dedicated purposefulness paid off as a crowd of 10,994 jammed Sam Houston Coliseum to see Brown take on 26-year-old Lane, a left-handed farm boy from Michigan who had not lost a fight in three years...
Confused by Lane's southpaw style, Brown found it difficult to land his wicked left hooks and right uppercuts. But in the end, it was the young challenger who tired. Brown began boring in, bloodied Lane's face in the 9th round, knocked his mouthpiece out in the 10th, made use of his six-inch advantage in reach to power hard rights deep into the challenger's stomach. By the 15th round, Lane was out on his feet, and Brown won a close but unanimous decision. The undisputed king of the lightweights went home to his wife...
...delegates" looking forward to the free drinks. At a barked command comes the sound of marching feet and in tramp flag-bearing comrades (male and female) from the parachute group of the paramilitary "Association for Sports and Technology." The orchestra strikes up a Beethoven minuet, and through the lane of parachutists come the bride and groom...