Word: uppercut
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...that he had aggravated an old back injury. Only losers need excuses, and Floyd needed more than most. From the second round on, it was evident that Cassius could have knocked Patterson out any time he chose-and he almost did, despite himself, in the sixth round. A ripping uppercut snapped Floyd's head back and turned his legs to rubber; a left hook drove him to his knees. Clay stood there watching, hands at his sides, as Floyd staggered to his feet at the count of nine. "I wanted to stop it earlier," said Referee Harry Krause...
...Uppercut! Uppercut!" cried Catcher John Roseboro...
...adopting this uppercut-with-olive-branch stance at his press conference, Lyndon Johnson once again sought to underscore his hope of ending the Viet Nam war with a one-two punch-military success leading to a settlement from a position of strength...
...election campaign with a vengeance, even though Gordon Walker and his Tory opponent, Leyton Engineer Ronald Buxton, tried to soft-pedal it. Nastily and noisily, the neo-Nazis invaded Gordon Walker's first campaign rally in Leyton, were only repulsed after Gordon Walker threw a right uppercut and Labor's burly Defense Minister Denis Healey hurled the Fascist leader, Colin Jordan, off the platform into the front...
...R.P.M. Meg is a blow-up of a caricature, a manic Yiddisher Momma. Her every 25? tip is accompanied by loud self-congratulation, her compulsive camaraderie is lavished on clerks and big shots alike, her flattery is as subtle as an uppercut. Mama's venom kills, but not so swiftly as her hot, Oedipal affection. "Come," she wheedles Joseph. "I just made a lap. Come over here fast and I'll be your social life...