Word: uppercut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...
Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is quite a girl. A tank-town showgirl from Denver, but no blowzer, she is frank, fresh, full-blown, natural, vibrantly on the up & up. Maisie lets the cinemaudience know early that life has braced her for a right uppercut and a left to the jaw, so being stranded in Big Horn, Wyo. with only 15? during rodeo week puts no undue strain on her morale. She takes a stand behind the counter of a shooting gallery, goes gunning for a big, silent ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing...
...then fattened up and won the welterweight (147 lb.) championship, then turned to the lightweight division and won that championship (135 lb.) too-all within ten months. Ceferino Garcia, Filipino welterweight, is also a good man in the ring: he has a paralyzing ''bolo" punch (a right uppercut), knocked out nine opponents this year. An overgrown welterweight, he is practically a middleweight...
...under Farr's eves. After more of this Farr's face was badly marked. In the seventh round Louis landed a halt-dozen punishing blows in as many seconds, but the flurry passed. In the 15th and last round, Louis, having tried everything else, tried a right uppercut to the body. It missed. The final gong rang...
...fear. Last week, as soon as the fight started, it became obvious that Braddock was not afraid and that Louis could still be hit with a right. After forcing the fighting through most of the first round, Braddock, pinned momentarily against the ropes, caught Louis with a short right uppercut that knocked his opponent off his feet. Louis jumped up without a count, managed to keep out of trouble for the rest of the round...