Word: knockdown
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...Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...rebels seized a school in North Ossetia, "underlined the failure of the Kremlin's Chechnya operations," she says. The final destruction of Yukos in December, when Baikal Finance Group, a consortium linked to the state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft, bought its main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz, for a knockdown price, "demonstrated the state's unwillingness to guarantee private property." And Yushchenko's victory in Ukraine showed that Russia wanted to pursue "an imperialist foreign policy but couldn't even achieve that." Shevtsova believes Putin is building an authoritarian system that "contains not only colossal menace for Russian society...
...advantage and drawback of democracies are that, in the middle of wars, we get to have a bloody, impassioned, rhetorically charged, knockdown bare-knuckled fight over who will run the country. We get to lambaste a President, his military failures, his rationale for fighting, his domestic policies and any number of other things. We get to call his opponent a traitor, a war criminal, a flip-flopper, a weak-willed vessel who will say anything to get elected. And much of the time, we even mean it. And then we decide. And then we realize that we are still...
...setting--London, 1874--or the length, or that unfortunate, overlong stuffed shirt of a title. Don't worry about its author's ominously French-sounding name (Faber is actually a Scot by way of Holland and Australia). Ever since last fall readers have been watching for another knockdown, breakout book on the order of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. It's here...
...Almost half an hour of the movie takes place in boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...