Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayors of cities along France's Mediterranean coast last week, the U.S. consulate in Nice dispatched an urgent predawn request: call out the police and round up all the U.S. Navymen in town. In half a dozen French and Italian ports, U.S. shore patrols marched into bars, hotels and nightclubs in search of men and officers of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
...Robinson knocked out champion Gene Fullmer with a left hook to the jaw in 1:27 of the fifth round to become the first man ever to win the world middleweight title four times...
Dave Beadie, playing on the Crimson squad for the first time, went through 21 holes with his Holy Cross opponent, but finally lost his round. Frank Dodge and Warren Iliff also were defeated...
...182Willie ("Cemetery") Perteet, the aging (51) Georgia caddy who lost his job as President Eisenhower's exclusive club toter because the Augusta National pro decided he was "too decrepit," got a longdistance vote of confidence from Spokane. Members of the Spokane Athletic Round Table invited Cemetery to caddy in their national seniors open (for men over 50), were still undecided whether to assign him to Ike's brother Edgar (68) or Augusta Pro Ed Dudley (55), the man who fired...
They survived eight preliminary rounds which pared the original field of 36 teams down to 16. They were finally beaten in the quarter finals, after having upset second-seeded St. Joseph's College in the first round of the final eliminations...