Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxing has suffered from the war: four champions have been killed in battle. But last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...
...fleet and lean, 10,000 tons, with a 100,000-h.p. heart and fifteen 6-in. guns for her voice. Only her boxy stern, where she could carry eight planes, and the squat derrick cocked on her fantail, marred her clean lines. She was water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone...
...sandy waste known as Fort Bragg, where Hargrove lived and gold-bricked, is just what he cracked it up to be. Strange and quaint people and officers, fantastic programs, and unbelievable feats of training squat sweatingly there. Forty-five former Harvard ROTC men will to I you so any day, to the tune of the Caisson Song...
...test consists of squat jumps, pushups, situps, pullups, a 100 yard "pick-a-back" run, "burpees," and a 300 yard spring. One hundred per cent will be given for 73 or more squat jumps, 85 situps, 18 pullups, 43 pushups, 13.75 "burpees," an 18 second speed in the hundred "pick-a-back," and 35 seconds or less in the 300 yard...
Energetically directed by Coach Norm Fradd, who seems to be a concentrated package of energy, the students went through push-ups, squat jumps, the Burpee test, and a variety of other sweat-producers. Their scores were recorded by their mates, and the hardy lads with the strong wind were temporarily sifted from the panting fellows believed to be in need of what Coach Fradd described as "heavy calisthenics...