Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spinks, defending the title in only his ninth professional fight, was obviously ill equipped to run Ali to ground. The former champion's talent may have dimmed, but he was still a superbly conditioned athlete. Six months ago Ali could not escape Spinks and had folded his hands over his face, leaned on the ropes and allowed Spinks to bash away. Now Ali backpedaled on resilient legs and, more important, he used his hands. The famous Ali jab lacked the sting of old, but it held Spinks at bay. Each time the boxers closed on one another, Ali threw...
Nevertheless, this Windy City bard founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Within three years she printed an odd-looking work that opened with six lines of Italian and then proceeded: "Let us go then, you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table ..." Nothing quite like T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" had ever appeared before. The expatriate gentleman from St. Louis and the lady from Chicago put each other...
Brown completed a pair of passes to Horner and John MacLeod. Then, on second and ten at the midfield stripe, Brown uncorked a perfectly-timed bomb to Polillio who flitted by the double coverage for a sudden six. Bosnic's PAT made it 21-19, and with 1:20 showing on the clock, a field goal held out the prospect of victory snatched out of the fire...
Throughout the race, Doane made up ground on the hills, while Sheehan pulled even on the flats. "I was discouraged that I couldn't pull away from him," Sheehan said afterward. "I finally sprinted ahead of him at the six-mile mark and increased my lead to seven seconds in the last quarter-mile...
...human services budget in the name of austerity. In the same way, angry taxpayers who voted for Dukakis against then-Gov. Francis W. Sargent because of the Duke's "No New Taxes" pledge on election eve, will never forgive him for the massive tax increases that Dukakis found inevitable six months later...