Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cosmetic Results. Stanton was a bit stunned. After the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the three networks themselves announced a voluntary exorcism of "excessive" violence. But it was too late to change the mood of the TV season without enormous financial sacrifice. The schedule of programs had been sold to advertisers, and in some series as many as ten weeks' episodes were already completed. Although drastic revisions were promised, the results were mainly cosmetic...
...Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions should get wise to themselves," he said. "They're putting the newspapers out of business." More important, the city's big businessmen stuck with Hearst. Although the paper sold about 22% less advertising space, most of the major advertisers ignored union pickets and protests and continued to place sizable...
...that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring. Regarded as a curiosity at first, the Pottawatomie Plowboy gradually overcame most of his awkwardness and, by virtue of a lethal right uppercut, four years later won the chance to meet Johnson...
...Oriental Park Race Track in Havana on a blistering hot April afternoon, was scheduled for a man-killing 45 rounds. It lasted 26, or one hour and 44 minutes, making it the longest heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight, I wished he throwed it sooner...
Bullet fans are equally sold on Unseld. As formidable as Monroe is flashy, the former University of Louisville All-America has been commanding the backboards as though the taller men in the league were merely bystanders. In a recent game against the Lakers, he grabbed 27 rebounds to Wilt Chamberlain's 21. Two weeks ago, against the Boston Celtics, he hauled down 27 to Bill Russell's 14. Off the defensive boards, Unseld gloms onto the ball and rockets it to half court so quickly that the Bullets' chief offensive threat this season is their headstart fast...