Word: sloppyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This policy looked as if it might prove dangerous as sloppy tackling let the Barbarians through for their first try in the fortieth minute. (13 to 3.)
¶ A fat and sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in...
Have Tools; Will Travel. In Manhattan, the United Nations employees' newspaper quoted the appraisal of a personnel interviewer on a job applicant: "Definitely not to be considered; carried a dagger at waist; sloppy appearance; returned . . . carrying gun at waist."
"He looks sloppy in the ring. But he is a good fighter," says Patterson. "They say Marciano is the fighter who can't be hurt. But if you want to beat him you have to fight him and make him back up. I think of Rocky Marciano a lot...
Until a year ago, the regular patrons of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad were abnormally contented commuters. Unlike many of their brethren who traveled on other lines, the New Haven crowd (35,000 suburbanites on the New York end, 22,000 in Boston) liked their trains; when other...