Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, Rocky looked rusty from his layoff. He fought clumsily but cleanly, missing with a lot of roundhouse rights. But by the fifth round, he had connected often enough to bloody his opponent's eyes, and Rocky's white trunks looked like a butcher's apron. Home, a shifty boxer, managed to last out the ten rounds. Rocky won, by a decision, and then rushed over to hug & kiss the man he had been trying to decapitate a moment before-and 5,181 fans roared approvingly...
...Claude Harmon strode out to the first tee, he knew he lacked what the boys called "tournament toughness." But on the first round he fired a 70, just one stroke off the leader...
...tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes. Even South Africa's Bobby Locke, regarded as today's best putter, moaned over them, and went astray. Ben Hogan blew up on the third round. But "tournament soft" Claude Harmon played...
...Shot. As the last round began, Harmon had a two-stroke lead, and reacted to the pressure by turning taciturn. The only man with a good chance to catch him was husky, hard-luck Chick Harbert, famous for tremendous drives and poor finishes. But Harbert fell apart. Harmon, a little more on edge now, showed it by biting his lips and asking the crowd after a drive: "Where is it? Where is it? Did anyone see my ball...
Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...