Word: whup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cooper's battered eyes. "I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay was so brash, so, well, so American ("That cripple," snorted Cassius. "I'll whup him like I was his Daddy") that Britons still paid up to 6 guineas ($17.64) for a rain-spattered seat, and raided the cooky jar to bet on Cooper (at odds ranging from 5-2 to 4-1). A 78-year-old lady even sent Cooper an embroidered pillow with...
...shiny $60 bicycle, and he proudly pedaled off to a fair at the Columbia Gym downtown. When the show was over, the bike was gone. In tears, Cassius sought out Policeman Joe Martin. "If I find the kid who stole my bike." he said, "I'll whup him." Martin told him that he'd better learn how to box before he went out looking for a fight, and offered to let him join the boxing classes...
...fashionable explanation for criminal acts is a troubled childhood. Liston's was all of that. One of 25 children born to an Arkansas cotton farmer and his two wives, Sonny has hated authority as long as he can remember. "I caught a whupping from my father every day. If he missed a day, I'd have to go to him and ask, 'Why didn't you whup me?' " His mother walked out and went to St. Louis. At twelve, Sonny ran away to join her. "She put me in school," says Liston...