Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind these new regulations is the N.C.A.A.'s basic conviction that intercollegiate boxing "de-emphasize power and emphasize skill." The Preamble to the Collegiate Rules adds that "a knockdown or knockout, should it occur, is considered incidental...
...Sport of Skill...
...Boxing is a sport of skill participated in for the fun and satisfaction derived. There are many boys who have need of a direct method of dissipating their aggressions and boxing provides that opportunity...
...public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote was scheduled, the bill's managers had a single weekend to get their legislation back on the tracks. They were able to do so only because of the skill of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had dedicated long hours to making the way straight for the bill...
...fault is not Robinson's. As Jerry Kingsley, a well-to-do. 53-year-old widower who falls in love with a girl of 24 (Gena Rowlands), Robinson is neither cinematic nor Little-Caesarish. He plays with feeling and skill. Age-conscious to begin with, made brutally aware of the perils of marriage as he proceeds, he is ruefully realistic, but always with an ear cocked for romance. The part comes off; the play does...