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Word: sparse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Fade-In. Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 1, 1982 | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Frazier can still shake the building. When he spars with his sons, Marvis and Hector, he looks old and slow. Like a gingerbread man, he has plumped out (to 229 lbs.). But the whomp he fetches the big bag can still tingle a spine. "At all times," he instructs the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight One More Round | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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