Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rough and dirty fight, but most boxing fans had seen them rougher and tougher. The difference was that seldom had a nationwide TV audience been treated to so shocking a reminder of boxing's basic brutality. In the ring at Madison Square Garden, Welterweight Champion Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, was battered unconscious by a furious twelfth-round assault from Challenger Emile Griffith...
Paret lay limp and still, blood running from his eyes and nose. The cameras zeroed in for an endless moment, and better than any ringsider, the stay-at-home boxing buff saw the tragic picture of a fighter who had been all but killed in the ring. Next day, after an operation to relieve the pressure on his damaged brain, doctors gave Benny Paret "one chance in 10,000" to live. While he struggled to survive, boxing rolled with the punches as it took one more public pasting...
...throat, and as the killers pulled once more, he emitted a short gasp. For more than three minutes, the young men heaved like draft horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul: a two-carat diamond ring, two wedding rings, a stainless-steel watch, worn gold Masonic ring and key, two dimes and five pennies, with a total value of $3,440.25. The four climbed back into...
Last week new Chairman Court Gross won his wings. He reported that Lockheed snapped back in 1961 to ring up record profits of $26 million on record sales of $1,440,000,000. Courage had a lot to do with the comeback. Lockheed bravely wrote off nearly $114 million in Electra and JetStar losses in a single year; that clobbered the company in 1960 but put it on solid financial footing thereafter...
Playful? Make your own phone ring. Dial 911, wait for the tone, twirl a seven, and hang...