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...cried that the calling of the strike marked a "day of infamy," and Mayor Bernard J. Dowd denounced the "open revolt against the Government." Leftwingers joyfully applauded the teachers' "militancy." All such talk seemed to distress the teachers. They disliked even the word "strike," and they tried to duck the whole issue by calling it an "abstention from work." ("Strike," explained one teacher primly, "has an ugly connotation...
...were convinced-too easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...
...Britain might ask for a trusteeship to be shared by several powers, including the U.S., which has always ducked responsibility for Palestine. (If Britain forced the issue in U.N., there might be no chance for the U.S. to duck...
...Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back to duck the fight). Last week the New York Athletic Commission barred Graziano indefinitely from New York rings. The ban meant the end of next month's Madison Square Garden title fight with Middleweight Champ Tony Zale. But all was not lost: from hungry promoters in Cleveland, Chicago and points west came...
...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...