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Word: ringed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni, son of the Foreign Minister. In a letter made public, one girl claimed that he was the "assassin" for Montagna's ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Test of Fire | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...season's brightest star is César Girón, a 20-year-old Venezuelan from an old Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: New-World Fighters | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...empty-eyed, Charles sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby arms with awful, awkward power. Down for the third time. Charles took the count of ten. He was still groggy when he stumbled across the ring to congratulate the champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No One to Hurt Him | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds an easy winner all around, and the extortionist's victim (Ruth Roman) sighing gratefully up at the great big wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bull Session | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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