Word: pascual
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...Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease...
...York at Washington--Larson (9-2) vs Pascual...
...that feast day from the list of national holidays, the archdiocese of Buenos Aires postponed the traditional Corpus Christi procession from Thursday to Saturday so that more workingmen could attend. In an attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed after the church feud broke out, banning outdoor religious gatherings without police permission...
...opposition. Last week the Interior Ministry banned a scheduled outdoor Mass and procession marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) ordered the "lay enthronement" of the late Eva Peron; pictures of Evita are to be posted at all union headquarters so that "workers...
...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...