Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middleweight champion of the world, the best fighter, pound for pound, in the modern prize ring. And he was smart enough to see what was happening that summer night in 1951 when Britain's Randy Turpin swarmed all over him to take a clear-cut, 15-round decision...
...Spain's dashing ex-Matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, 29, whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled...
Since 1900, said Judge Adlow last week, 327 men have died from prize-ring injuries. There were six fatalities last year. In the same week that Sanders was killed, Ralph Weiser lost his life in Klamath Falls, Ore. "In the absence of a law legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...
...court was critical of the few safety devices used in the boxing ring. "Professional baseball not only sanctions the use of a protective device for the head but some of the clubs require it. College and professional football spare no efforts to protect participants . . ." But he was even more critical of boxing fans. "The rules of the Boxing Commission forbid a one-sided match; [they] require a match to be stopped when a contestant is outclassed. But the spectators dictate the determination of these vital decisions . . . In the enforcement of the Boxing Commission rules, the claims of humanity and decency...
...Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. A fantasy about a hobbit who grows out of his tweens to fight Ores, Balrogs and Barrow-wights before he takes on the Cracks of Doom (TIME...