Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punch cattle for no damn...
Forward Brian Thompson provides a main scoring punch for the Quincy team, but it has been well-coordinated team play and tremendous spirit that has been responsible for clinching the House title. In the cold and drizzle of the fall weather, the Quins have been unwilling to succumb to the wet misery that has downed the spirits and the standings of the other Houses...
Sharp, a sophomore, has booted seven goals in three games--all Cardinal victories. He will be assisted by veteran Pete Sipples, whose four goals at inside right give Wesleyan the best one-two punch in the north...
...Terrible Hoax." In the astonished silence, Sonny Liston stalked around the ring. Then came the angry, roaring boos from the 18,894 spectators. Many had not seen the knockout punch; those who had felt cheated. In 258 locations across the U.S., some 500,000 people, who had paid between $4 and $10 each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank...
When it was all over, a benumbed Patterson was unable even to say which punch had finished him. Disguised in a beard that he bought before the fight, he drove home to Scarsdale, N.Y., to await his $1,185,253 share of the $2,183,750 take. In the dressing room, newsmen pressed in on the new champion, himself $282,015 richer for his brief night's work. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute," hollered Liston's pressagent to the yelling mob. "This here is the heavyweight champion of the world. This is Mr. Liston...