Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...
Beauty and Power. When fight time came. Rocky showed that he needed no help from either ring or rackets. With rough-and-tumble power, as clumsy as any champion since Camera, he took 8 rounds and 54 seconds to batter Cockell senseless. Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval...
...Liotta, a brawler out of Boston's North End who fights under the name of Tony DeMarco, delighted a home-town crowd with a 14-round assault that knocked Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton senseless and separated him from his tainted title (TIME...
...Radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests has not been serious, but senseless fallout jitters are getting more so. Last week an Oakland, Calif, householder reported his lawn covered with radioactive ash. Civil-defense technicians came running, found the "ash'' to be a yellow film of acacia pollen...
...made a bold decision. He put students who had so recently fought against each other in the dormitories together. In the course of the summer an ex-Rommel staff officer formed a close friendship with a German communist, while down the hall a young Dane who had been beaten senseless by the Nazis confessed to an American, "For the first time I can talk to a German or an Austrian as a human being...