Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening's tag-end bout in Manhattan's smoky St. Nicholas Arena, and the fans were paying less attention to the two indifferent welterweights than to the referee. He was Benny Leonard, onetime great lightweight, now a paunchy 51 but still an agile man in the ring. Dancing out of the fighters' way in the first round, he suddenly toppled to the canvas. Tripping over his own feet was something new for Benny Leonard; the fans laughed...
Heavy travelling expenses, he pointed out, shackled the lightweight gridders to local goal posts, and unfortunately, nearby schools like B. C. and Tufts could not support additional squads. Competition with prep school varsities was abandoned after a trial, according to Bingham, simply because "A lot of those boys are bigger and heavier than our 150-pounders...
...same blocks still lie across the road. For their games, one-fifties would have to journey regularly to Columbia, Cornell, and Annapolis, present members of the lightweight loop. An already Iron-bound H. A. A. budget, from which thousands are yearly allotted to team transportation, would not permit the added burden...
...team, with no boxers in heavier than the lightweight class, upheld Hawaii's fighting tradition stressing speed and fast hitting, to place five men in the semi-finals. Though three made the finals, none managed to win a title...
Author Shute has projected a heavyweight plea in a lightweight novel. The plot is embarrassingly slight: wounded Veteran John Turner, back at his job as a London salesman, is told by his surgeon that he has but a year to live. He is determined, before he dies, to look up three hospital buddies who were kind to him: a British pilot, a British paratrooper, an American Negro G.I. In Burma, he finds the pilot (who had once objected to having the Negro in the same hospital room), happily married to a Burmese girl. The paratrooper (who had beaten a murder...