Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the 49-year-old man in a well-cut blue-grey suit was Fawzi Kawukji. To thousands of Arabs in the Middle East the name carried a ring of romantic derring-do. To hundreds of Arabs in Palestine, as to all of Palestine's Jews, the name was a synonym for terror. To the British it spelled trouble...
...body politic. The whole question of how much political activity is desirable in an election necessarily involves the basic philosophy of student government: whether the Council is to be a truly representative body elected with a clear understanding of student problems and opinions or merely the private ring of career men and back room caucuses...
Beau Jack, 25, twice the world's lightweight champion, was game. He braced himself on his good leg, tried to slug it out. The second time he went down, he stayed there, helpless. The referee, and Tony's manager (see cut), helped Beau from the ring, his face clearly showing his agony. Had the promoters, anxious to cash in on a good thing, killed the golden goose? Oh, no, said one doctor; Beau could be patched up once more, in "ten months to a year, if no complications develop...
...just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight), but Joe got his $50,000 guarantee...
...first game of yesterday's intramural basketball clashes. Winthrop's Puritans used a galaxy of substitutes to hold off a fast-finishing Kirkland five and ring up a 35 to 31 victory on the Indoor Athletic Building courts. The Deacons, playing without two regular starters, staged a last-minute drive led by Bernie Edison's three quick baskets but fell short of the mark as the last quarter...