Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stolid, power-punching Liston threw in the proverbial towel before round seven began; Sonny suffered a probable shoulder fracture sometime during those six rounds...
...Round One Cassius was a dancing master, ducking, slipping and backing away from a barrage of Liston lefts. Gloves near his waist, Clay seemed to be taunting Sonny to connect; Sonny never did. Sometime during this first round Liston claims to have injured his shoulder trying to block a Clay punch; it was not apparent to the viewers. Liston stalked Clay from the moment the bell sounded, connecting with hard shots to the body, but more often missing with ferocious jabs. Clay scored with a volley of six punches to Sonny's head and capped them with a sharp right...
...clear what had happened. Then, suddenly, Cassius leaped into the air, arms raised, screaming like a madman, "I won, I won, I won, I am the greatest, greatest, greatest." Jack Nilon, Liston's manager, had stopped the fight. Nilon later explained that the injury to Liston's left shoulder in the first round had become progressively worse with each round until, in the sixth, Sonny could not even raise his left arm. "There was nothing to do but stop the fight. Sonny was simply defenseless," said Nilon...
Determined to defend her son's name, Marguerite Oswald last week delivered a monologue before the Warren Commission in Washington. She carried with her a shoulder bag containing letters that Lee Harvey Oswald had written to her from the Soviet Union, as well as several undisclosed "documents." Pre cisely what she told the commission was not made public, but it was evident that the patient investigators learned little that was new or pertinent. Mrs. Oswald, said Chief Justice Earl Warren, "produced nothing that would change the picture...
...absence of Art Croasdale in the 35-lb, weight undoubtedly hurt. The Crimson ace, who is hampered by a recent shoulder injury, did, however, take a second in the shot, throwing 65 ft., 1 3/4 in. The winner, Northeastern's Carl Wailin, set a new meet record...