Word: plexus
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...that I took the title from Sullivan and I held it until '97 when Bob Fitzsimmons made the solar plexus famous with his blow that earned him the crown. It's queer but no one but doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight...
Russia is playing both ends against the middle-and Sun is "bystanding" in the middle. He can strengthen the midriff of Chang and Wu or deliver there something like a solar plexus punch. During the week he listened, seemingly impassive, to bids and bribes from all quarters...
...radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla and the solar plexus. On goes a current stepped to very high frequency. Patients "have reported no sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation of any kind." "There were no visible emanations nor was a photographic plate fogged when placed in front of the pointers." Yet for four months various Portland physicians have posed...
...Pugilistic comedy that lands risible solar plexus with an awful wallop...
...giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar plexus. But he "stuck" - to the end. Loud and long were the cheers for both. Dundee vs. Vicentini. Johnny Dundee (ancient Italian) patted Luis Vicentini (Chilean, lightweight champion of South America) with a choice assortment of "educated" slaps in a twelve-round match at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Johnny, dressed in faded...