Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd roared again in the eleventh, when Walker landed with an uppercut and put Sharkey on the ropes again. Sharkey, his face set into lines of exasperation and doubt, let a punch or two go low, rubbed Walker's bad eye with the heel of his glove, "fished" instead of hitting with his left hand which was hurt early in the fight. He rallied in the last rounds, won the 15th and stood shuffling his feet in his corner while the referee spoke to the judges. There was one vote for a draw, one each for Sharkey and Walker...
...called to the White House Acting Secretary of State Castle and Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Had they needed a picture of the U. S. position to help them arrive at their decision, they could have done no better than to send out for a copy of London Punch, whose main cartoon often has all the authority and conciseness of a leader in the august London Times. Punch had depicted a kindly President Hoover carrying nice old Dame Europa in his arms across the waters of world-wide Depression (see cut). Beneath the cartoon were these lines...
Tilden's own newspaper accounts of the matches were revealing. Excerpts: "It was greater severity, both off the ground and at the net, that beat Kinsey. . . . He lacked the punch to hold me off. . . . His lack of power was due to his long battle with Albert Burke. ... I was at my best and have seldom hit with greater accuracy and severity combined...
...town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
...chased him the night before he had not noticed it, but he complained that Mr. Vanderbilt had telephoned that he was going to get a gunman to kill him. Advised the Police Chief: "You look big enough to take care of yourself. If anyone's bothering you, go punch...