Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not relish the prospect of a third go-round. Bradley's big hope was that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command would jettison the Brotherhood, call off the election demand, and take the I.L.A. to its breast. But first he had to convince Meany that his orphaned group measured up to the readmission standards that had been set for it three years ago, e.g., that it had purged itself "of all semblance of crime, dishonesty and racketeering," and had established "democratic ideals...
...costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that guy to death with marshmallows...
...captain of the '57 team, Bill Morris, is running in the sixth position, while last year's freshman captain, Dyke Benjamin, is listed at seven. Junior French Anderson and seniors John Read, a new-comer, and Jim Cairns, stellar half-miler on the track team, round out the first...
Last week that putter cooled off a little early in the final round. Then, as Kocsis faded, Harvie's game got better and better. Coming home on the back nine, he fired sub-par golf, overpowered the weary challenger to win 5 and 4. In the long history of the U.S. Amateur, only six other men have won the title twice in succession. Harvie Ward is the first man to turn the trick since Lawson Little last won in 1935. And since he has no intention of turning pro, he is a prime favorite to win again...
...After too many years of timid boxing and tainted decisions that gave him the world's welterweight championship. Johnny Saxton tried his hand at honest fistfighting. For a few rounds at the Syracuse War Memorial Auditorium, he moved in and traded punches with Challenger Carmen Basilio. By the time he backed off and tried to defend himself, he was so beaten up he had nothing left. In the ninth round Basilio pounded him senseless. While Saxton was being lugged to his corner, the onetime Canastota (N.Y.) onion farmer knelt in mid-ring to give a prayer of thanks...