Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban athletes from overcrowded slums. Although American championship circles were predominantly WASPish or Irish Catholic, there were many amateur clubs where local heroes could box for fun, a prize, or a small purse, and an entire corps of talented black boxers (forced to fight mainly amongst themselves due to ring economics). Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette, and Sam McVey were so good that Johnson himself wouldn't box them when he held the title, though he had defeated each of them earlier...
Left without alternatives to follow, Johnson seemed to play out his repressed violence according to the animal urges of his naturally anarchic bent. He flaunted his wealth and what it bought him: white wives and concubines, fast cars and a dandy's clothing. In ring and out, he viciously mocked his white opponents. Most irritatingly, his face was unmarked, and he always kept smiling...
...recovery operations stretched to 15 months-the longest and costliest in mining history-some of the widows sought an end to the strain of wondering "when the phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument...
...freelance prostitution) were made illegal, that so many supposedly upright girls were caught in similar positions. In 1962, a group of 30 to 40 college girls from "good families" were discovered selling themselves for "pin money" in Rome. Just last year, the morals squad busted up a vice ring of 200 girls, who had to be beautiful, intelligent, from a high social class and multilingual to accommodate businessmen from Common Market countries. Many of the girls were happily married...
...harder with your clothes off. The London cast of Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! got so cold standing, sitting and walking around onstage in the nude or near-nude that they threatened to get dressed. "If they do it," said Theater Owner Paul Raymond, "I'll ring down the curtain and give everybody their money back." But eventually he did turn the heating on earlier than usual; and stepped up the under-the-floor calorie content. "It's made all the difference," smiled Actor Noel Tovey. "I think the cast will be quite content." Not the tweedy...