Word: pugilists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them the "first interview on Iran-contra that Bush has done with any network." The day of the interview Rather had three one-hour rehearsals with the six people involved in the broadcast. He was coached as if he were a candidate preparing for a debate or a pugilist preparing for a fight, rather than a journalist going into an interview. Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush...
Sent to the exclusive Hotchkiss School in Connecticut for his senior year in high school, Bork took to intramural boxing and won the school championship as a 147-pounder. By his picture in the yearbook is a fitting quote for a pugilist: "Do you want a contusious scab, maybe...
Cohn has claimed lately to be suffering from liver cancer, which he says is now in remission. Even so, throughout the proceedings the old courtroom pugilist was unrepentant. "This is just a bunch of nobodies trying to get me because I'm a somebody," he told reporters in April. He may now seek to appeal his disbarment...
...came to Bright Center with a fifth-in-the-nation 2.10 goals-pergame average, a nickname and a reputation as a pugilist on skates...
...rapidity of a flurry of Marvin Hagler haymakers to the pounding strains of "Burning Heart" by Survivor. The audience has to weather flashing lights, smoke, flags, flying drops of sweat, blood stains, chanting crowds and the ever-present metallic thuds of potentially lethal blows. And like a punch drunk pugilist the audience succumbs...