Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixon says that his manager didn't care about his decline because he "just wanted a fighter to cover up his dope racket." The officials called Dixon's last fight a draw, but, he says, "the way I felt afterwards, I didn't really feel like going into the ring again." His boxing career ended, and with a one-string tin-can bass, he began his career as a performer. Later, a big-time gambler bought him his first upright bass, and he started performing at Martin...
...Charlie, 10, was crowned King of the Circus. Then came the grand parade of elephants with spangled riders led off by Sonny and Cher and their daughter Chastity, 4, who was crowned Queen of the Circus. Star after star -from Carol Burnett to Jimmy Stewart-rode once around the ring, helping to raise $25,000 for the S.S. Hope, a floating clinic full of doctors who sail the seas to teach medicine in underdeveloped countries...
...first full week of Phase IV, each costly ring of the check-out cash register seemed to eat away at public patience with the Administration far more than the revelations of the Watergate scandal. To beat the worst of the expected price bulge, shoppers crammed into supermarkets, piled their carts high and left empty spaces on the shelves. Appliance dealers in Atlanta could not meet demand for freezers from consumers wanting to stock up on meat...
...dead. The violence of his death merely adds to the unreality of putting a period at the end of an already successful life which had just begun. When the reporter from The Globe called Saturday asking if we knew anything about "Dan" Porter, the question didn't immediately ring a bell because Dan wasn't the name he went by around here, it sounded a little impersonal...
Shaft in Africa finds the priapic private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) on the trail of a ring of modern-day slave traders, who railroad unsuspecting blacks from Africa to Paris and put them to work at menial tasks for starvation wages. This sorry situation is brought to Shaft's attention in an unlikely manner: a large black fellow with a big stick chases the startled detective around his Greenwich Village apartment, brains him and bears him off to the suburban residence of an African diplomat, where he is tested, cajoled and finally hired to hunt down the slavers...