Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burning issue of the contest seems to be the possibility of a club magazine, which was suggested in a letter sent to all members by a group of underclassmen who charge that the club has become a "two ring circus...
This theme doesn't always work. Sometimes the Kafkaesque abstraction rings a bit false; sometimes the dreams ring a little corny, like the repeated line about "a house on a hill...
...took him only one round to find a brand-new challenger. Discredited as he was by two quick knockouts at the hands of Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, 30, is still one of the most interesting fighters ever to climb into a ring: a problem child, a moody, monkish man who at 21 became the youngest heavyweight champion ever, without even becoming a real heavyweight. Floyd weighed 182¼; lbs. when he knocked out Archie Moore in 1956; for last week's fight he weighed 197¼ lbs., the heaviest of his career-and the bulge of fat around...
...before the post-Christmas exams, a still unidentified upperclassman stole a key to the locker where the tests were stored. He copied and returned them, then hired as salesmen ten cadets who earned 10% commissions on a sale price of about $10. Fortnight ago, two "doolies" (freshmen) discovered the ring, briefly pondered their obligations under the academy's honor code, then blew the whistle. Within days, the organizer, his sales force, and 18 other cadets-most of them football players-had been bounced from the academy. In Washington, Secretary of the Air Force Eugene Zuckert immediately ordered a complete...
...Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated prodding from teachers, they decided to become professional duo-pianists. In 1948 they bought an old delivery truck loaded on their Steinways and hit the road. They played in gymnasiums, churches, cafeterias, ballparks, even a boxing ring. In the first dozen years they went through three trucks, twelve motors, and too few square meals "If our wives hadn't worked," says Teicher "we never could have survived...