Word: roughest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight on a controversial decision), Jersey Joe has acted like a kid cheated out of his marbles and determined to get them back. He began training far ahead of schedule-while Big Joe, eating his way to a blubbery 225 Ibs., was seeing London and Paris. He hired the roughest & toughest sparring mates he could find. He pulled no punches in sparring sessions at his New Jersey camp...
Arcaro's biggest failing used to be his temper. When he got mad during a race, he crashed flagrantly into other horses. He won a reputation as the roughest rider in the business...
...Hampshire is the chief exponent in these parts of the "if you can't trick him, club him" style of game, and today's match promises to be the roughest the Varsity will have to face all season...
...Roughest & Readiest. Stanley Cup tempers were flaring. The Bruins, two games down to the Maple Leafs and faced with elimination, were playing rough. The vaultlike arena rumbled with the noise of battle. Fist fights broke out on the ice, and fans started another by jumping three Toronto players and their coach at the end of the game (which Toronto won, 5 to 1). When Weston Adams, Bruins president, entered the Toronto dressing room to see if the players were injured, he was pelted with profanity by Connie Smythe, Maple Leafs managing director, and ordered out of the room...
...mentor Bob Maddux still shakes his head and says the three men he lost by graduation were the best on the squad. Eddie Davis, now J.V. shepherd, was chosen second All-American at defense; Jay Hurley set up nearly all the Crimson goals; and big Ned Dewey threw the roughest bodycheck on the squad...