Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, Billy Sandow, Lewis' manager, had jumped into the ring. "It's a foul!" cried he. "A dirty foul! You've got to award us the match!" The swarthy Munn peered querulously across the mat, tore off his bathrobe, assumed a bellicose attitude, confronted the irate manager. Munn's manager likewise grew threatening; but for all that the referee gave the fall to Lewis on a foul, allowing the latter 15 minutes to get back into the ring. The crowd was indignant, stormed about the ringside, hooting, booing...
Little Walker took the first four rounds. Savagely he tore into McTigue, slashed him around the ropes with rights and lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing...
That did not end the game. The Tigers kept at it to the bitter end, with pass after desperate pass. With a minute to play, a Californian fumbled and Halfback Tuttle of Missouri scooped, dodged, tore off for a touchdown. Then Referee Walter Eckersall finally held up his hand, saying "Time!" and the legend was telegraphed back over the Sierras, the desert, the Rockies, the badlands and the cornlands to Missouri: "University of Southern California 20, University of Missouri...
...tore along the ties into Syracuse, N. Y., and the voice said: "We are determined that Wall Street shall not buy this election." Then it headed for Weehawken, N. J., Aiken, Md., Baltimore, Schenectady, Boston, Pittsburgh...
...ball there through the arbitration of the coaches. During the whole of this 70-yard march the blackshirt forwards forced aside the Crimson linemen to make way for a charging back with what might almost be called case. The hero of the advance was Sayles, who repeatedly tore off eight or ten yards at a time...