Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rushed into the top challenger's position after 25 short victories, and rusty from 13 months of inactivity, Cooney fought Holmes more than twelve brave rounds, until he could barely stand up and his trainer, Victor Valle, could stand no more. With fewer than ten seconds remaining in the 13th round, Valle scrambled under the ropes and ran across the ring, folded his arms about his fighter and propped his head on Cooney's chest. He held on dearly. The fighter's left eyelid was sliced, and the bridge of his two-tiered nose was split...
...Victor Lasky thesis acquired new impetus and evidence. In It Didn't Start with Watergate, Lasky detailed a variety of dirty tricks and unsavory habits practiced by previous Presidents. John and Robert Kennedy played unethically rough in the 1960 primary campaigns against Hubert Humphrey. As President, J.F.K. got involved with a Mafia chiefs girlfriend. In a new book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, Author Garry Wills presents the Kennedys as an energetic but morally empty collection, fatally and somehow pointlessly ambitious. Wills is as ruthlessly eloquent-and often unfair-with the Kennedys as he was with Nixon in his 1970 book...
...parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...
...sultry fuse to the plot's ethnic charge. There are many preliminary explosions as Teenager casually murders his way through the business day. At times, this nonchalance is carried too far: "Teenager shot Gigi in the back of the head with the gun in his left hand and Victor in the back of the head with the gun in his right hand. He fired once more into each head. He stuffed the guns into his belt and dove out of the Lincoln on the street side, so schoolyard kids would...
Benny drove up in his Mercedes. As the car pulled away, Teenager could see Gigi and Victor with their heads against the seat backs. Teenager began to think of a place to get rid of the guns. Then, like a bored cat, he began to lick the blood from his hands...