Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the fight ("It puts the sweetness back into you"), performed perfunctory stoops and bends, and thumbed the Bible ("I just open the Good Book and read whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right...
...gored four weeks ago, he told friends: "I'll come back as soon as I can stand. I don't want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...
Last spring, when Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse went shopping for an anniversary gift for his wife Mitzi (TIME, April 6), he got more than he was looking for. In paying $5,000,000 for majority control of Conde Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour and Bride's Magazine), Newhouse caught Conde Nast in the midst of negotiations to buy the U.S. publishing house, of Street & Smith. Last week Sam Newhouse, no man to duck opportunity, closed the inherited deal...
Maddened Elephant. Went a famed limerick of the period: There's a wonder/24 family called Stein -There's Gert and there's Ep and there...
...trees with birdshot. They used firehoses, thumped on dishpans and shot skyrockets. They tried a sound truck blaring terrifying shrieks. They rolled in big searchlights and dazzled the air. But in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., there was no getting rid of the starlings. By the thousands, the birds went on chattering loud enough to shout down whole neighborhoods of people, fouling the pavement below the shade trees...