Word: powderpuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...
...women artists. And rightly so, because most women artists are lousy. As a rule they paint little, squidgy, fancy things, all prettied up like valentines, and I don't blame the public for not liking them." The speaker, whose signature is simply "Marx," is as masculine as a powderpuff. Marcia Marx Bennett, 26, is a wife, mother-and a good painter. Last week the pretty blonde from Newark had a smash hit show at Mexico City's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes, the first American woman painter and the second American ever invited to hold a one-artist...
Davey, a southpaw powderpuff puncher with fancy-Dan footwork, stayed on even terms with Gavilan for the first two rounds. In Round 3, Gavilan opened up with one of his famed flurries, pummeling with lefts, rights and his own uppercutting bolo punch. Davey, bewildered by the barrage, was dumped to the canvas for a nine count, the first time he had ever been knocked down. From then on it was just a matter of time, and Gavilan took his time. In Rounds 5 and 6, Gavilan switched styles and fought southpaw too, "just...