Word: pugilists
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...concerning Paolino Uzcudun, whom I am personally acquainted with, I resent very much the statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions...
...Charles, who died last week at 73, was born with the last name Robinson but dropped it to avoid being confused with the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. The two had a lot in common--Charles had taken as many hits in life as any pugilist. According to Jet magazine, Ray's mother told him, before she died when he was 15, "You might not be able to do things like a person who can see. But there are always two ways to do everything. You've just got to find the other...
...lost just two of 44 fights in a 14-year career. (One highlight: knocking out Mike Tyson in 2002.) "Should I go back in and have one more fight? But I realized this is the drug of the sport: there is always one more fight." The London-born pugilist says he'll hang up his gloves for a job at a sports management agency. And if that doesn't work out, perhaps George Foreman could use someone lean and mean to help hawk grills...
...going to Congress with your dukes up, and how states, towns and ordinary people can spend their money better than Washington can. And he'll be offering them their money back. Gore talks about surplus reinvestment, Bush about a surplus dividend. Gore is running as a book-devouring pugilist; Bush as a backslapping manager who'll get all the thinkers on the same page...
...person Rodriguez looks more like a Maxim cover girl than a pugilist (she has dropped 10 lbs. since Girlfight wrapped). But when she speaks, she talks tough, skipping the float-like-a-butterfly thing and going right for the bee sting. How is she finding Hollywood so far? "I've met a lot of hypocrites." How did she approach her part? "I pretended it was a rap song, and I would recite my lines and recite them until I got the rhythm of it." Whom does she admire? "I freakin' love [martial-arts star] Michelle Yeoh! She kicks ass, like...