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RUTGERS at PRINCETON--Not the same Rutgers from a year ago, but a good enough version to whup the Tigers. Rutgers 20, Princeton...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Timmy, We Hardly Knew Ye | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

Then pardon-me-whilst-Ah-whup-this-out Tim clickety-clacked the first two lines. In the ol' kontry tradition...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

America. Alistair Cooke's excellent but over-touted documentary series. Tonight: Watch the Native Americans whup Custer. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

...game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second-string quarterbacks, a linebacker, a tight end, the game (by a score of 48-27) and considerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

First he was Cassius Clay, the lovable loudmouth who was going to "whup the world." Next he was the mysterious Muhammad Ali, spouting Black Muslim rhetoric. Then, slapped with a draft-evasion conviction and stripped of his title, he became the self-styled "champion of the people," a martyr to the black cause. Last week, 3½ years after his last professional fight, he was Cassius Clay again -at least in the ring where, shuffling, stabbing and slugging as of old, he pummeled Irishman Jerry Quarry into swift and violent submission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Ringmaster | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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