Word: monstering
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...brace of Eastern colleges with exceptional wrestling teams have taken on the affectionate nickname of the "Monster League"--whenever Harvard or almost any other Ivy League school runs into one of them in a match, the Ivy Leaguers get swallowed, practically in one gulp...
Last year, for instance, the best Harvard wrestling team in a decade traveled to the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament to face the monster powers--Lehigh, Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, Army, and Navy--and won just three matches in the entire tournament. And two of these three were against other Ivy Schools...
...other two wins came against a Columbia wrestler and the third was Fred Pereira's 10-7 win over an opponent from Rutgers--a college of near-monster proportions...
...That look of his shakes me." It was meant to humor, to prod, to annoy, to con Champion Liston into thinking that a young (22), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), sturdy (210 Ibs.) heavyweight with 119 amateur and pro victories behind him would be easy pickings for the man-monster who had twice butchered Floyd Patterson. And, my, how he succeeded, thanks to his unwitting accomplices, the sportswriters...
...diplomatic negotiations find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...