Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith called them to the center of the ring to explain the rules, Nelson cut him short: "Let everything go. No fouls." That was all right with Ad. It was a fight to the finish. In the 23rd round Nelson, the "Durable Dane," dropped the challenger with a liver punch. Somehow, Ad got up and fought on. In the 40th round Eddie stopped the fight. Nelson was a helpless hulk, his face a mess of bleeding flesh. But the winner had taken more of a licking than anyone realized. In two short years Ad Wolgast fought 21 times, finally lost...
...Carl ("Bobo") Olson (169 Ibs.), middleweight champion of the world, bounced the former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim (175 Ibs.) off the canvas of San Francisco's Cow Palace and earned a unanimous decision. Long a competent boxer, Bobo likes to think that he has the heft and punch to rate a crack at Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (187 Ibs.), may well have proved his point. ¶Less than a month after they whipped the Montreal Canadiens for the National Hockey League championship, Detroit's Red Wings took on Les Canadiens again for the Stanley Cup. Without their...
...whole matter of "old thought control" (the television industry's nickname for IBM) and ask, if uncharitably, why doesn't the clock on its world headquarters here work on schedule? Perhaps a small gremlin with imagination has whispered in the ears of a regimented salesman or punch operator and said "THINK...
...rough-and-ready slugger who insists that all he does is "throw punches until something gives," Champion Peele is more of a stylist than he likes to admit. Bobbing, weaving, ducking, he is an elusive target; he knows how to fight his way out of trouble with furious flurries. "He has every punch in the book." says his admiring coach, J. T. Owen. "And he has that something extra-that Dempsey instinct. He wants...
...once forced Franklin Roosevelt to order him carried out of his own office rather than deal with a union, acted as though it was not so hard to take after all. As photographers swarmed into his office, Avery playfully rubbed Beck's bald head, looked pleased as Punch when the union leader said: "You've got more hair than I have...