Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punched out his right to play on the streets of Bingham and West Jordan. Last week's fight had hardly started before the broken-nosed, beetle-browed young brawler was sure he could win. After mixing it up in Madison Square Garden for six rounds with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, Challenger Gene Fullmer, 25, walked back to his corner and said, "I can knock him out, Marv. Lemme open up and knock...
Manager Marv Jenson saw the scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...
Saboteurs were at work the length of the sugar-rich island. Buses were set on fire, power and telephone lines cut, store windows smashed, cars bombed, bridges burned. A train was derailed, and a railroad station burned down. In the Guantanamo power station, two bombs went off and plunged the big adjoining U.S. Navy base into darkness...
...Gosh, I wish I'd missed it by one vote," said Tennessee's Bowden Wyatt when he was told that the American Football Coaches Association had named him Coach of the Year. Sugar Bowl-bound for a New Year's Day game with Baylor, the Volunteers are balanced on the peak of an unbeaten season, and Wyatt is too busy keeping them there to enjoy the honor. "This puts extra pressure on you," said...
...Apparently convinced that Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson really means to tangle with Utah's Gene Fullmer, International Boxing Club publicists set about proving that, come Jan. 2, paying customers will really see a fist fight. Fullmer's right cross, they announced after subjecting the punch to split-second electronic analysis, travels at 30.4 m.p.h., packs a 1,260-lb. wallop. Robinson's right loafs along at 15.2 m.p.h., but it lands with the weight of 1,500 lbs. Robinson, for one, was unimpressed by the revelation. "Don't care how fast it goes," said...