Word: punchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith. "One of those guys who looks like a bum in the gym, then performs like...
...ever wondered what life must seem to a tree, assembly-line work will give you a very good idea. There is a certain atrophy of the brain which sets in after about a week of working as a hole puncher, one which makes things like breathing and blinking seem like complicated, fascinating processes...
...ever wondered what life must seem like to a tree, assembly-line work will give you a very good idea. There is a certain atrophy of the brain which sets in after about a week of working a hole puncher, one which makes things like breathing and blinking seem like complicated, fascinating processes...
Richardson promises he will play politics with all comers, adding, "I've always been a good counter-puncher."CrimsonJi H. MinELLIOT L. RICHARDSON '41 officially announcing his candidacy in mid-March. He entered the race shortly after Sen. Paul F. Tsongas (D-Mass.) announced his retirement from politics...
When he inexplicably found it again after about a year, two Long Island real estate men found him and began to manage and market the Irish puncher as, in the way real estate men would naturally put it, "a hot property." The phrase is more like Dennis Rappaport, 36, the gaudier member of the firm, than Mike Jones, 46. Both men seem curiously proud of the nickname, "The Whacko Twins," earned in a number of ways. When their first fighter, black Middleweight Ronnie Harris, converted to Judaism, they sued to allow him to wear his yarmulka in the ring. They...