Word: slugfest
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...undefeated freshman nine slashed 18 hits in a lopsided slugfest with Tufts enroute to a 25-7 runaway victory yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...precisely because of that attempt, the Navy has found itself buffeted by a series of racial outbreaks. In early October, the decks of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, which was en route to Viet Nam, became the stage for a wild slugfest in which unhappy blacks vented their spleen on white seamen. Three of the 46 who were injured (40 white, six black) had to be evacuated by helicopter. A few days later a similar scene was played out on the oiler Hassayampa in Subic Bay in the Philippines; four whites were injured and eleven blacks were...
Despite the high personal stakes involved, the campaign was more of a shadowboxing match than a toe-to-toe political slugfest. Brandt campaigned as if the election were a plebiscite on his Ostpolitik, even though he knew full well that few West Germans seriously opposed it. With skillful if transparent timing, his government-aided by Moscow, which also approved his Ostpolitik and exerted pressure on East Germany to cooperate-produced an agreement with East Berlin eleven days before the vote. Just before this week's vote, Brandt promised that "if I am reelected, I will not hesitate to propose...
Before the current season began, players learned that Campbell meant business when two exhibition-game brawls brought fines totaling $5,000. Now, with half the season gone, there has been only one bench-clearing slugfest* compared with ten at this point last year. Major penalties have dropped by 30%, time spent in the penalty box has decreased 1,740 minutes in the first three months of the season, and the Players' Emergency Fund, which is stocked with fines levied against fighters, is down from...
...tequilla" because his style is "smooth as butter," owns the best knockout record (47 in 69 bouts) in welterweight history. He and Lewis shared the bill with World Bantamweight Champion Rubén ("Mister K.O.") Olivares and Jesús ("Little Poison") Pimentel, who staged a fast and furious slugfest before Olivares beat Pimentel into submission in the tenth round, scoring his 63rd knockout in 69 fights. Both men are typical of the host of hungry little fighters, most of them from Latin America and Asia, who are restoring some of the lost excitement to boxing from the bottom...