Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged out of his corner, missed with a right, then landed a paralyzer. A few more rights put Fox on the floor. At the count of six he got up, his legs rubbery. Gus belted him again. That did it-in 1:58 of the first round. Grinned Gus: "It was like taking candy from a baby...
...England last week on an exhibition tour, Joe Louis was having his own troubles. He fired a British sparring partner because he couldn't get him to throw mere than one punch a round. His weight was up to 225 Ibs. and a second chin was beginning to show. Joe rode to the House of Commons in a borrowed Rolls-Royce, listened to about 30 minutes of debate ("I got there in the middle and I didn't quite understand it. ... I couldn't hear it too plain...
...legion of Hearstlings dredged the morgues for picture-page art. In Albany, a squad of Times-Union reporters was sent out to round up MacArthur votes and quotes, under stern orders not to take no for an answer. (At week's end, one reporter quit in disgust.) In Washington, MacArthur campaign offices were opened right "next to the Republican National Committee" with some of the black type usually reserved for ax-murderers...
...meadows of Graves's obscurity are hedged round with a thorny but exhibitionist defense. He masks his face with bangs and a beard, and wears expensive grey flannel suits under an overcoat shabby enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
Captain Pete Fuller tossed a second round, 4 to 2, decision to George La Sasse of Lehigh when he fell into a near fall in the third period, while Dan Ray lost a 6 to 2 decision to McClure of Syracuse, the man who defeated him last year. Both Ray and Fuller took pins in the first round...