Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...fancy-dan by boxing's matchmakers, often had trouble getting fights. "I had to go to Panama for a year and to Australia for six months to find someone to fight." he recalls. But Joe's fortunes improved after Trainer Bill Gore took him over late in 1955, set about making him more of a slugger...
With deficits since 1952 and a loss last year of $1,000,000, the decision to sell the 118-year-old Times-Star was made reluctantly by Publisher David S. Ingalls, 59, lawyer, civic leader, grandson of Founder Taft, and manager of the late Senator Taft's 1952 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Only member of the Taft family opposing the sale was 80-year-old ex-Publisher Hulbert Taft. At the decisive meeting, the old man wept...
...enough reading or speaking skill in any foreign language to handle overseas work adequately. Said Sollenberger to the teachers: "The 75% figure surprised even us. We knew the deficiency was serious, but not that bad. Unfortunately, by the time we get these men and women it is almost too late for us to provide them with these basic skills, skills that they should begin to acquire even before they reach their teens. The basic problem has to be handed back to you people...
...charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait...