Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...
Last June Rocky needed 15 bloody rounds to punch out a decision over Charles. Last week the husky (5 ft.11 in., 187 Ibs.) champion was back at his brawling best. By now no one expected him ever to learn how to box, but it did not matter. There was no one around who could hurt...
...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...
Died. Frank Erne (rhymes with churny), 79, onetime lightweight (1899-1902) boxing champion, conqueror in 1900 of the immortal Joe Gans (to whom he lost the crown in a rematch that ended with a first-round, one-punch knockout), in recent years the oldest living ex-champion; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...from the Harvard viewpoint, the flat admission is equally unfortunate and inequitable. While some men at the dance form friendships and make lasting contacts, others just gawk about, sampling the punch and adjusting their ties. Surely these two cases do not receive equal benefits from the dance, so it is unfair to tax them equally...