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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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On fight night last week, a capacity crowd of 19,417 jammed Madison Square Garden and paid $615,401−the largest gate ever recorded for a nontitle bout. Ali, who forsook his limousine for the subway so he could accompany the "little people" to the fight, turned out in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Down, One to Go | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Crunching Hook. Aware that he was way ahead on points, Ali coasted through the late rounds until a few of the fans began booing and filing out of the Garden. They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Down, One to Go | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Down, One to Go | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

The fluty call of a curlew heralds the first light of dawn. A faraway widgeon whistles to its companions. A rid off in the dark shallows, a flock of shelduck guffaw at one another like wee-hour carousers wending their way home. MacKenzie Thorpe is in his natural habitat. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wild-Goose Man | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

MacKenzie Thorpe has been stalking through the Lincolnshire marshes for most of his 62 years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wild-Goose Man | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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