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Word: punchers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a contest between a canny, battle-weary old boxer and a wiry young puncher. The Argentines rode their ponies like gauchos at a festival, leaned spectacularly from their saddles to swipe at the ball. They led at the halfway point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Old Horsemen | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Other winners last week: CJ Sandy Saddler, 22, a willowy, broomstick-legged Negro, ended Willie Pep's six-year reign as featherweight boxing champion. Saddler, more of a puncher than a boxer, began by bloodying Pep's nose, put him on the floor twice before knocking him out in the fourth round at Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Phantom Race | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Dinah Shore, 30, dark-eyed scorch-singer, and George Montgomery, 31, cow-puncher-turned-cinemactor: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa Ann. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

VINCE MORAVEC is the Crimson's line puncher. Throwing all of his 200 pounds into it every time he lugs the ball he punctures holes by his own power when none are visible. On several occasions this fall, he has also shows some tricky open field running...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: Crimson Catalogue | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Received from a delegation of Arizonans (who want a veterans' hospital located near Phoenix) a so-called ten-gallon cow-puncher's hat, its color matching the Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Liberty's Victory | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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