Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach John Yovicsin will probably use a new backfield alignment, with Dick McLaughlin at quarterback and Walt Stahura at right halfback. Stahura injured the ring finger of his right hand and is still unable to handle the ball under center, after sitting out the last half of the Cornell game...
...sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like a man who had stood too close to his razor. The bell was his biggest ally when his knees came unhinged at the end of three different rounds. But still he came on, and Sugar Ray left the ring a broke and beaten man. Although the referee disagreed, a pair of judges transferred his crown to the bloody skull of Carmen Basilio; federal agents slapped a $514,310 tax lien on Sugar Ray's purse...
...Adversaries. Tito grows through the book from an awkward villager to a smooth party functionary to a puffed-up dictator wearing the most splendid uniforms since Göring. He alternately appears a shrewd peasant, a cold-eyed killer, a sentimental family man. There is rough humor as well as ruthlessness in him, courage but little real rashness, some pity but no compassion. His friends and enemies were men of great complexity. There was Milovan Djilas, the Montenegrin partisan who seemed determined to infuse some humanity into the Communist machine and today, from jail, is one of its more eloquent...
...demonstrators had hoped to pull out with them most of the school's 2,000 white students in a forceful protest against Negroes in their classrooms. But ring-leaders admitted the demonstration was a flop...
...cubist Accordionist: "What would you say, Picasso, if your parents were to come to fetch you at the station in Barcelona and found you with such a fright?" Instead, Manolo stuck to the classic tradition, strove to render bullfighters, gypsy singers, peasant women and children with the ring of truth...