Word: toonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographers focused their cameras on the monstrous bulge above his boxing trunks, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson shook his head ruefully and admitted that "118 kilos [259.6 lbs., on a 6-ft. frame] is not precisely fighting weight." Still, reporters had vivid memories of the "toonder and lightning" right hand that flattened Floyd Patterson in 1959, and they suppressed their laughter when Ingo, 37, announced that he may try a comeback. Addicted to the good life even in his prime, and a problem drinker in the years since, he claims that he has now given up smorgasbord and women...
...presumably injured Liston for six rounds and scarcely staggered those 215 pounds of lead. He called the winning blow last night his "phantom punch," and it was aptly named. You could scrutinize the video tapes of the fight from now till doomsday without finding a remote facsimile of "toonder 'n' lightning...
...undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson. Then Machen had one dreadful fight. Traveling to Sweden, he took on little-known Ingemar Johansson, was standing idly in mid-ring when Johansson unloaded his "toonder and lightning" right hand and flattened Machen with a flash first-round knockout...
...carving some unconventional gargoyles? Great idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among his figures were Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, the wisest of the Three Little Pigs, and a Big (six feet tall) Bad Wolf...
Soon all of Arnhem, and half of Holland, was talking about the gargoyles. Cartoonist Toonder wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon...