Word: stand-up
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...Simon, oversized son of a Jewish butter-&-egg salesman, was no more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which armor and striking power are sacrificed for speed, is good only for swift hit-&-run attacks, not for a stand-up fight with the tough...
Thirty trucks crammed with bedraggled, unshaven peons rattled into Mexico City, last week following allnight, stand-up journeys from points as distant as Veracruz. They had been given firearms and bandoleers of shiny cartridges, and were promised a three-day holiday with a munificent 2½ pesos a day for cigarets and pulque-all provided by district politicos in the name of Land, Liberty and the REVOLUTION. On the outskirts of the city they met hostile crowds who shouted "Viva Almazán!" and pelted them with stones. Firearms went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were...
...Stouffer (rhymes with "gopher") sold his Cleveland creamery to enjoy the ease he had looked for all his life. The ease came hard. Affable, garrulous, he missed talking to people. There was nothing to do. Back to work went Father Stouffer, opened a tiny, stand-up dairy counter (milk & buttermilk) in Cleveland's old Arcade Building. Fearful that her husband's customers weren't getting enough to eat, Mother Stouffer sent over one of the Dutch apple pies her friends had praised. It was a sensation...
...bring against one of 100,000,000. For in Leopold the Belgians have found a leader to whom their allegiance, based on respect and affection, is just as solid as the most fanatical Nazi's to Adolf Hitler. And Leopold III is a stand-up man as well as a King...