Word: pugilistically
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...September 1978 Seventh Sister) would knock writers like Mailer off their pedestals, would make younger writers realize that they could criticize an author's male chauvinism while admiring his use of language. Perhaps this is too much to ask of Harvard, where, as we all know, the pugilist has a private little ring at 21 South Street...
MARRIED. Sugar Ray Leonard, 23, pugilist whose winnings include an Olympic gold medal (in 1976), the World Boxing Council's welterweight title (last year), and praise from Muhammad Ali ("He's a miracle"); and Juanita Wilkinson, 23, mother of Ray Jr., 6, their son; both for the first time; in Landover...
...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...