Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously. Recently released from Arizona State Prison, where he served five years for manslaughter-he killed a man in an unscheduled barroom brawl over a pool game-Slaymaker kisses his friend McDoniels on the cheek before helping him into the ring. To no avail. A minute into the first round, the wild-swinging, grabbing McDoniels is in trouble. His opponent, Tom Salas, 30, steadily moves in, jabbing, and connects with a left cross; McDoniels is down, and out for the count...
There is no doubt that the Council must act quickly. After winning round one in a federal district court, the MBTA accepted a contractor's bid for construction of a tunnel from Harvard Square to Porter Square...
...Gone too are the singsong girls and the 30,000 prostitutes who once plied the streets, and the opium dens and the gambling halls. The people are louder and livelier and more independent than the prim Pekingese. Shanghai has the vibrancy and hustle of New York. It boasts 140 round-the-clock (jih-ye) shops and eating places. Shanghai winks, but never sleeps...
...consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with privy; they bathe in a communal facility. The tile-floored, high-ceilinged rooms are hot in summer, but they have an electric fan. Among other coveted "things that go round," as the rural Chi nese put it, they have an electric clock, a sewing machine and two bi cycles. The rooms are adequately furnished: three beds, a desk, a large table, rune chairs, fluorescent-light tube, two big jars for storage of rice and a small glass-topped dresser on which...
...vantage point in center field, the Dodgers' Bill North gloried in the drama: "That was the best show I've ever seen. The game's best fastball hitter up against a kid who throws as hard as anybody in baseball. It was like the 15th round of a heavyweight championship fight and you knew both guys had won seven rounds. Bob just aired it out and said, 'Hey Reggie, here it comes. If you can handle it, you deserve it.' It had to end in a home run or a strikeout...