Word: woodcocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WOODCOCK...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
...referee disqualified Savold for fouling and declared Woodcock the winner. Wrote a London Daily Express reporter: "It was certainly a moral win for the American. And don't accuse me of being anti-British. For most of the 10,500 fans who booed Woodcock from the ring after his unhappy victory would support this judgment...
...Charles E. Woodcock Jr. of 233 Palmer Street are to be guests of the Aetna Life Insurance Company at the Harvard-Yale football game in Boston Nov. 20, the Hartford office announced today. Mr. Woodcock, associated with Almy and Company insurance office here, is one of the 19 salesmen in New England being rewarded by the company for efficient salesmanship during a recent campaign, the second recognition of his work in the last six months. A luncheon is to be served before the game...
...Mushroom Woodcock ("This is a dish like the basic black dress: you can garnish it with accessories...