Word: whacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viva America! Only she could spend millions to see "two men whack at each other in a ring" and refuse support to a space program designed to increase man's knowledge of his world...
...accumulated a record number of firsts and mosts. Never before have two undefeated professional heavyweight champions met: Frazier has 23 knockouts in 26 consecutive victories, Ali 25 K.O.s in 31 straight wins. Never before has the public been willing to spend so much to see two men whack away at each other in a ring. At the Garden, which expects a gross of $1,250,000, all 19,500 available tickets have been sold out for five weeks; scalpers are currently asking $700 and more for a $150 ringside seat. The total take from live and closed-circuit...
...Sonny and Gunner are out of whack with their times and with their environment. Sonny doesn't see anything wrong with the Supreme Court desegregation decision, despite his mother's hysterical fears of a "darkening" of white Indianapolis neighborhoods. Gunner exercises his right to wear a beard and fall in love with a Jewish girl, despite the objections of his mother and his old "Big Rod" high-school jock friends...