Word: pugilistically
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...pugilist detectives Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) are asked to investigate the brutal murder. The detectives' relationship is complicated by the fact that Bleichert has fallen in love with Blanchard’s long-suffering girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson...
...anyone picture George W. Bush hauling in an oil company's CEO and handling him the way Roosevelt handled J.P. Morgan? In the next presidential election I will be looking for a pugnacious pugilist who knows his ornithology. Thanks for reminding an old social-science instructor how important T.R. was to the development of today's U.S. GRANT BELINGER Fenton, Mich...
...Cinderella Man: Nobody disses Opie (overlooked director Ron Howard), especially when that pugilist Russell Crowe is in his movie...
...Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones. This collection of short stories about damaged men poses important questions: Is courage a virtue, or is it simply testosterone poisoning? Is God just a neurochemical event, part of the tantalizing aura that precedes an epileptic fit? Jones is an ex-Marine and former amateur prizefighter who puts a wallop in his prose...
...little rummage shop which he runs for charity came a woman, two months ago, who mysteriously whispered for him to meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more...