Word: liston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Hometown Boy Felix ("Doc") Blanchard left in the 1940s and became an All- American fullback at West Point. Hunters with shotguns combed the swamp, and a local radio station offered a million-dollar reward for the creature's capture. Fourteen-inch footprints appeared on a dusty road; Sheriff Liston Truesdale intends to send plaster casts to the FBI, eventually. He may also ask Davis to take a polygraph. But no one is in much of a hurry to solve this mystery. "I hope they never catch him," said Rhonda Knight as she hawked Lizard Man T shirts ($6.50 apiece...
With his cutting, analytical commentaries on the Vietnam war, the American presidency, the beatnik generation and the boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, Mailer helped usher in a new writing style, the New Journalism, in which the reporter becomes an active participant in the story. According to Willie Morris, an editor of Harper's in 1968, Mailer was "creating the language" by his new use of words, sentences, and obscenities...
...tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...
Rawson is no stranger to the commission, having served on it from 1958 to 1964. "I was sitting on the commission when Cassius Clay--now he's Muhammad Ali--was going to fight Sonny Liston," Rawson said, explaining that the fight never took place because Clay discovered a hernia injury the day of the weigh...
...only hope for Holmes, then, is an early knock out. That's just what he and many experts predict. But Ali has been hit by far harder punchers than Holmes--Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...