Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least, Jersey Joe wasn't afraid of the champ. At 33, the battle-scarred Negro, who looked like Jack Benny's Rochester, had seen so many ups & downs that one more wouldn't hurt, either way. He had quit the ring several times. In those intervals he had driven an ice truck, mixed cement, gone on relief at $9.50 a week to support his wife and six kids. But once he got a chance to fight Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott (his unferocious real name was Arnold Raymond Cream*) went about his preparations thoroughly. He studied movies...
...careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor, but for all the damage he did he might as well have had both hands in a sling...
...Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs and battered face...
...took his ring name from a crack Negro welterweight of half a century ago, who, like Jersey Joe's father, was born in Barbados...
...Nuremberg Case as it was presented by U.S. Chief of Counsel Robert Jackson. Throughout the trial Captain G. M. Gilbert, a U.S. psychologist, had access to the prisoners 24 hours a day. Nuremberg Diary, written from his daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their...