Word: pugilistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very interesting, to exaggerate wildly," as one of Newman's wisecracks goes. Worth a smile, at any rate, as Philpott-Grimes, the overeducated and under-muscled pugilist, puns his way to a title shot. It is unclear, and unimportant, whether Newman actually knows anything about boxing. He does know a lot about journalism, and some of his best gibes are about television and the press, including one notable satire of a team of excessively cheery newscasters. This is only to be expected from a veteran NBC correspondent who has spent a large part of his life on-camera...
...himself to think in prosecutorial tones. "This is what I've been hoping for." As it turned out, members of the Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral corner, and saw every major decision upheld by the appeals courts...
...almost half a century, the face on Mount Rushmore has been perceived as a full-scale model. Textbooks are unable to contain the man who was a civil war unto himself: Eastern aristocrat and Western cowpuncher, intellectual and pugilist, reformer and clubhouse Republican, imperialist and trustbuster, warrior and peacemaker...
Much of the credit for Spinks's mastery of the sweet science should go to Art Redden. The trainer of the LeJeune team, he lavished attention on his prize pugilist. Redden, who is a sergeant in the artillery, only began to box when he was 26, but still qualified for the 1968 U.S. Olympic team. "He just oozed self-accomplishment," DiNicola remembers. "He was kind of a tree-stump philosopher too. He said you can't just learn boxing, you have to live...
...month out of high school, the aspiring pugilist found himself in boot camp at Paris Island, N.C. DiNicola was eventually stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, where he attended East Carolina University before receiving his discharge and journeying up to Cambridge...