Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began beating him, at one point brutally stomping on his head. "Cut his hand off! Cut his hand off!" one of the trio yelled. Recalls McLaughlin: "I came up fighting then. I took off running. I was bleeding everywhere, and I heard a shot ring out behind me." He made it to the safety of a well-traveled street and called the police. But the assault may have permanently destroyed the vision in McLaughlin's right...
...subject of president...Bok says there is nothing to the rumors heard around campus recently that he may throw his hat into the ring and run for the Senate. He does admit he has had some friendly proddings to run for the seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas--but nothing really serious. The people suggesting that he run "don't know too much about politics," the prexy laughs...
Iowa Democrats were sore about some competition from President Reagan who flew in to Iowa on caucus afternoon and made the media circus a two-ring affair. Reagan, whose job rating has dropped 12% since January, gave campaign speeches to 7,600 in Waterloo's Cattle Congress auditorium (only the Rolling StoneMn 1981, drew a bigger crowd) and to 7,000 more in Des Moines. Like most lowans, Democrat Sam Kauffman, a barber in Audubon (pop. 2,841), got a kick out of all the national attention. Said he "We don't get the chance for that kind...
Merely to satisfy his own low curiosity and ours, the author eases into a town where death has been done. If a trial is going on, so much the better; people can be made to answer at a trial, and the ring of lie clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away...
...Howard in Worcester, Mass., boxing fans were both ecstatic and uneasy. Leonard had been forced into retirement in 1982 because of a detached left retina. Fearing that he might damage his sight during the fight, scheduled for Feb. 25, the Massachusetts Boxing Commission barred Sugar Ray from entering the ring until he had been okayed by an ophthalmologist. Acting on the results of that new eye examination, Leonard last week underwent a preventive procedure to protect his right retina. This started a fresh round of speculation that he might never box again. After a second examination last week by Leonard...