Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than 200 American sailors . . . and British Guardsmen fought a pitched battle in Piccadilly early today," screamed the Daily Mail. The story could not have been less true. The sailors, explained Scotland Yard later, had only stood by amiably while London's bobbies rounded up an agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls...
...Yellow. By the third round, it seemed as if Graziano was to be spared the unpleasantness of seeing the terrible things that were happening to him. After a flurry of Zale punches had sent him down for no count, his right eye was closed to a slit, his left blinded by blood. Rocky-who well remembered that after last year's fight some sportswriters had called him yellow-kept groping forward, swinging wild punches and dripping blood on Zale. Between rounds, the Illinois Athletic Commission's doctor looked at Rocky Graziano's eyes, decided...
Even the Caspar Milquetoasts in the crowd were howling for Zale to make the kill. But the heat and his 33 years (eight more than Rocky) began to tell on ex-Steelworker Tony; he weakened badly in the fifth round. Early in the sixth, one of Graziano's swing-&-a-prayer haymakers landed squarely. Suddenly Tony was helpless; his arms dropped and his head jerked back & forth as Rocky hit him at will. After nearly 40 punches, Steelman Zale had not gone down, but he was lying inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering...
...open. Said he: "What? What? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? It's marvelous ... I can't believe it." Into the mike he yelled, "Mama, the bad boy done it." Later, supporting himself with difficulty against the wall of the shower room, the new champion* remembered about that sixth round: "I wanted to kill him. I had nothin' against the guy. I like the guy, but I wanted to kill him. Ya know what I mean...
...drug. Dr. Degkwitz first crystallizes the drug in a shape and size that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz, can be deposited at will in the liver, spleen, bone marrow...