Word: mayhemic
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...hard that I went right off my feet and landed on my back. That never happened to me before. Next thing I knew, he was picking me up." The New York Giants' Sam Huff says that stopping Taylor is so difficult that no amount of mayhem is unjustified. "They ought to relax the rules," complains Huff. "It's not right that you should get a penalty for piling on Taylor. You gotta pile on to keep him down...
Psychological warfare is as much a part of boxing as the diets of raw steak, and before every fight the camps are full of scary stories about the mayhem inflicted on sparring partners. The journeymen pugs hired as sparring mates are not paid to make the star look bad−even if they could. Yet those in Liston's camp seem to stand in genuine awe of the 30-year-old giant who may yet prove to be one of the most powerful fighters in history. In training since the first week in May, he has trimmed...
...mention [July 20]. Like St. Sebastian, I've been waiting for the worst. I liked the people with whom I was in contact. It was not the fault of one that the meat goes through the grinder to come out Timese, which is a mixture of mayhem and literary Metrecal (cuts you down to size)-nor of the other that the camera does...
...slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned on an electric blender or belabored the piano. Commented the unpleased New York Times: "Mayhem...
Battle Scars. In the rough, tough National Hockey League, where anything short of outright mayhem is considered a fair way to stop a man from scoring, Andy Bathgate has earned his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. He has the face of a Western movie hero who has just lost a saloon brawl. His upper teeth are the best that money can buy; he deposits them carefully in a paper cup before he goes out to play. "In Canada," he says, "you're not a hockey player until you've lost some teeth." In the rugged...