Word: spar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many hours and in many places. Anson found him "impossible to dislike. He's a warm, genuine human being who deserves better than to make his living by having his head knocked in." Anson at one point asked Frazier's manager, Yancey Durham, for permission to spar with the fighter. Informed that the last journalist to do so had been an ex-fighter who emerged from the ring with a broken leg, Anson contented himself with watching. A bigger disappointment was not getting a chance to ride on the back of Frazier's motorcycle. "But," said Anson...
...Marchand) is a cool and predatory school superintendent who seems to have frozen into her post. Anna has been involved in some vague sexual incident with a boy at her school, and Ceil has shown up with the papers to have her committed to an asylum. Catherine and Ceil spar on the subject, and the strange life they led with their divorced mother is dredged up, but nothing changes substantially. What should be show-and-tell is mostly tell-and-tell...
None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...
...spar over My Lai 4 and the Chicago Seven, guaranteed incomes and Women's Lib; our tastes for entertainment have little in common; our views on America's changing mores are worlds apart; and my hair is still longer than my father's. But these differences have not severed the link between us. Disagreement is inevitable, but we are not estranged. For this, credit is due to my parents' patience. Communication, however, remains a two-way street. Here are some tactics that have proved successful in lessening the conflicts...