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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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box v. (in phrase
box the compass)
1. recite the compass points in correct order.
2. make a complete change of direction.
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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BOXING HAS ITS HISTORY, UFC HAS ITS RIGHT NOW.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 6/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...The headline read: The Fight to Save Boxing. Just three weeks later, Sports Illustrated...the doom-and-gloom attitude toward boxing in the De La Hoya-Mayweather article...Ultimate fighting may never challenge boxing's place in sporting history. The likes...
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Boxing and Burkhas
Magazine article from: Women's Feature Service; 6/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...With the entry of women in amateur boxing, the sport has taken on a whole new meaning...Muslim areas around the Kolkata dockyards. Boxing, with all its physical and violent dimensions...boys from our area who went to the local boxing clubs. When we passed those clubs, we...
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Sportsview: Boxing Can Sometimes Be Noble
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...town next month before trying to reform boxing. If Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire made...eat Mr. Lewis's children?" A: "Boxing is a hurt business, and you're going...person federal commission to regulate boxing. They did it on a voice vote with little...
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BOXING.COM, Active Apparel Group Team Up to Introduce Everlast Shop Zone.
Business Wire; 11/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...activewear now available on one of Internet's leading boxing sites BOXING.COM, a Communicate.com property, and Active Apparel...available through the newly-created Everlast Shop Zone on BOXING.COM, a major online boxing-only Internet site...
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 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Boxing is a celebration of savagery; Says BARRY HEARN, who made a fortune promoting the sport.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 1/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Barry Hearn earned his place in British boxing history by making Chris Eubank a household...has given a massive boost to the anti-boxing lobby by describing his first love as...of Leyton Orient FC, pointed out: "Boxing is anti-Christian and I can't disagree...
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Boxing Embodies Both Beauty and the Beast
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...District over whether to grant Mike Tyson a boxing license speaks distinctly to the sport...very existence. The thing that has kept boxing alive all these years, all these centuries...kept on winning until both burned out. Boxing is as elemental as myth. But in boxing...
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Boxing's Forgotten Corner
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; WHEN BOXING WAS A JEWISH SPORT By Allen Bodner Praeger...period, more than 60 years ago, when boxing was a Jewish sport in the United States...up in the rough-and-tumble world of boxing. His father, Leo, was an amateur fighter...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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TROUBLED BOXING INDUSTRY NEEDS A NEW HERO
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 11/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 11-07-1999 TROUBLED BOXING INDUSTRY NEEDS A NEW HERO By STEVE ADAMEK...Holyfield or Lennox Lewis, depending on which boxing organization floats your boat. Perhaps the casual boxing fan also knows that Oscar De La Hoya and...
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Boxing Legends, Future Stars and Female Fighters to Join Foreman and Jones in Acclaim Sports' HBO Boxing Video Game.
Business Wire; 5/8/2000; 700+ words
; ...Over 35 Fighters Set to Square Off in HBO Boxing Debut Title Acclaim Entertainment, Inc...today the complete list of more than 35 boxing legends, future stars and female fighters...Foreman and Roy Jones Jr. in the HBO Boxing video game for the PlayStation(R) game...
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Boxing program aimed at combatting violence
Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner; 12/29/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Richard Thorpe Bay State Banner 12-29-1994 Boxing program aimed at combatting violence. Boxing is violent; but at times, the pugilistic...more peaceful goals. Last week, a series of boxing matches at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester...
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boxing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
boxing sport of fighting with fists, also called...Egypt, dating from about 2000 to 1500 BC, boxing is one of the oldest forms of competition...carnage. After the demise of the Olympics, boxing survived as a common sport. It persisted...
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Boxing
Book article from: American Decades
BOXING Boxing Decline The sport of professional boxing seemed to be in decline at the beginning of the 1960s. Boxing had been the most frequently televised sporting event during the 1950s because it was easy to produce: the action between two...
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Boxing Gloves
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Boxing Gloves Background Fist fighting has existed as a form of entertainment...sport. The oldest and most little changed of these has been the boxing glove. History Boxing was first put on the Olympic program in 688 b.c., and it was...
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Boxing Day
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Boxing Day the first day (strictly, the first weekday) after Christmas day, on which Christmas-boxes were traditionally given.
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boxing glove
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
box·ing glove • n. a heavily padded mitten worn in boxing.
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