Word: uppercutting
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...other with haymakers for four rounds to a draw (necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...
...roar of a gathering crowd swelled from the Calle Presidente Zayas below. Then an excited aide rushed to the Mayor, whispered that recalcitrant, anti-Batista councilmen were rumping it in the Municipal Building across the street. Outside the noise grew louder. Someone broke a window. Someone aimed an uppercut at the offender's jaw. Soon the air was full of fists...
With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...
Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is quite a girl. A tank-town showgirl from Denver, but no blowzer, she is frank, fresh, full-blown, natural, vibrantly on the up & up. Maisie lets the cinemaudience know early that life has braced her for a right uppercut and a left to the jaw, so being stranded in Big Horn, Wyo. with only 15? during rodeo week puts no undue strain on her morale. She takes a stand behind the counter of a shooting gallery, goes gunning for a big, silent ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing...