Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
...that he had won, but could get only one eye open. Said he: "What? What? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? It's marvelous ... I can't believe it." Into the mike he yelled, "Mama, the bad boy done it." Later, supporting himself with difficulty against the wall of the shower room, the new champion* remembered about that sixth round: "I wanted to kill him. I had nothin' against the guy. I like the guy, but I wanted to kill him. Ya know what I mean...
...Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal...
Unruffled, Nagy began again: "I appeal to the Communists who came here to break up this meeting. . . ." He was answered with a shower of eggs from the Communists...
...Shower Thy Blessings (the first NBC show of an eight-week summer series of Plays by Ear, Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), Chevigny succeeded. It was a neat little comedy about what happened when a backwoods preacher prayed for rain. A cloudburst drowns the village atheist's turkeys. The atheist sues the preacher for damages. The wire services make the trial a national sensation...