Examples of using Liston in English and their translations into Hebrew
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It's where Bentley got the liston knife.
Liston died of lung congestion and heart failure.[89] He had been suffering from hardening of the heart muscle and lung disease before his death.[90] Liston had been hospitalized in early December, complaining of chest pains.
And, oh, by the way, Sonny Liston is here too.
Apart from that, they tend to put more focus on getting the most effective and efficient ways of solving challenges that areusually defined on their behalf by collective codes(Zeichner and Liston, 2011).
This is a totally different fight than Liston expected… and anyone in this arena will tell you.
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Y-you never said anything about a liston knife.
Elizabeth Bear wrote the short story"Sonny Liston Takes the Fall", published in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2008.[102] The story speculates that Liston threw the Ali match for the good of society.
I have a client who's interested in a liston knife.
Civic leaders were also reluctant, worrying that Liston's unsavory character would set a bad example for youth. The NAACP had urged Patterson not to fight Liston, fearing that a Liston victory would hurt the civil rights movement.
A reminder, in a way, of how it was in March of 1964 atMiami Beach when Clay met Liston for the first time and nobody was certain how it would turn out.
Another example of found urns that highlight the metaphorical relation between urn design and the concept of home is the tomb ofthe“Rich Athenian Lady” from the geometric period(Liston& Papadopoulos, 2004).
President John F. Kennedy also did not want Patterson to fight Liston. When Patterson met with the president in January 1962, Kennedy suggested that Patterson avoid Liston, citing Justice Department concerns over Liston's ties to organized crime.[36].
Many in the small crowd had not even settled in their seats when the fight was stopped. The official time of the stoppage was announced as 1:00 into the first round,which was wrong. Liston went down at 1:44, got up at 1:56, and Walcott stopped the fight at 2:12.
Liston appears as a character in James Ellroy's novel The Cold Six Thousand. In the novel, Liston not only drinks but also pops pills and works as a sometime enforcer for a heroin ring in Las Vegas. Liston also appears in the sequel, Blood's a Rover.
The album produced three more singles including two more top-five R&B hits-"Enough Cryin'", which features Blige's alter ego Brook-Lynn(as whom she appeared on the remix to Busta Rhymes's"Touch It" in 2006);and"Take Me as I Am"(which samples Lonnie Liston Smith's"A Garden of Peace").
A wax model of Liston appears in the front row of the iconic sleeve cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He is seen in the far left part of the row, wearing a white and gold robe, standing beside the original-look Beatle wax figures.[100].
The following year, Sonny- determined to reunite with his mother and siblings- thrashed the pecans from his brother-in-law's tree and sold them in Forrest City, Arkansas. With the proceeds,he traveled to St. Louis to live with his mother. Liston tried going to school but quickly left after jeers about his illiteracy; the only employment he could obtain was sporadic and exploitative.
Liston competed in the 1953 United States National Championships at Boston Garden, passed the preliminaries stopping Lou Graff in the second round on April 13, but lost in the quarterfinals to 17-year-old Jimmy McCarter on April 15. He would later employ McCarter as a sparring partner.[18].
In the third round, Ali began to take control of the fight. At about 30 seconds into the round he hit Liston with several combinations, causing a bruise under Liston's right eye and a cut under his left, which eventually required eight stitches to close. It was the first time in his career that Liston had been cut.
Liston played a fist fighter in the 1965 film Harlow, made a cameo appearance in the 1968 film Head, which starred The Monkees, and played the part of The Farmer in the 1970 film Moonfire, which starred Richard Egan and Charles Napier. Also in 1970, Liston appeared on an episode of the TV series Love, American Style and in a television commercial for Braniff Airlines with Andy Warhol.[1][97].
Former champions Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson and Gene Tunney, as well as contender George Chuvalo all declared they considered the fight to be a fake. Some felt the knockdown was real but the knockout was fake. Ali biographer Wilfrid Sheed wrote, in his Muhammad Ali:A Portrait in Words and Photographs, that Liston planned to throw the fight for reasons unknown and used the legitimate first-round knockdown for that end.
Some claim Liston was murdered.[1] There are several theories as to why:(1) publicist Harold Conrad and others believed Liston had been deeply involved as a bill collector of a loansharking ring in Las Vegas. When he tried to muscle in for a bigger share, Conrad thinks his employers got him very drunk, took him home and stuck him with a needle.
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Liston signed a contract in September 1953, proclaiming:"Whatever you tell me to do, I will do."[1] The only backers willing to put up the necessary money for him to turn professional were close to underworld figures, and Liston supplemented his income by working for racketeers as an intimidator-enforcer. The connections to organized crime were an advantage early in his career, but were later used against him.[21].
December 30, 1970 was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. A dominant contender of his era, he became the world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, repeating the knockout the following year in defense of the title; in the latter fight he alsobecame the inaugural WBC heavyweight champion. Liston was particularly known for his toughness, formidable punching power, long reach, and intimidating appearance.
The Ring magazine ranks Liston as the tenth greatest heavyweight of all time,[3] while boxing writer Herb Goldman ranked him second and Richard O'Brien, Senior Editor of Sports Illustrated, placed him third.[4][5] Alfie Potts Harmer in The Sportster also ranked him the third greatest heavyweight and the sixth greatest boxer at any weight.[6] Liston was inducted into the international Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
Jack Dempsey spoke for many when he was quoted as saying that Sonny Liston should not be allowed to fight for the title. Liston angrily responded by questioning whether Dempsey's failure to serve in World War I qualified him to moralize.[37] Frustrated, Liston changed his management in 1961 and applied pressure through the media by remarking that Patterson, who had faced mostly white challengers since becoming champion, was drawing the color line against his own race.[38].
Shaun Assael wrote"The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights", published in 2016.[103] The book suggests that Sonny Liston may have been murdered and a possibility that the crime was never investigated. In The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches, published 2000, when many of Liston's former acquaintances were still alive, Tosches posits that Liston's idol Joe Louis introduced him to heroin, and that he ultimately overdosed.
Charles"Sonny" Liston was born circa 1930 into a sharecropping family who farmed the poor land of Morledge Plantation near Johnson Township, St. Francis County, Arkansas. His father, Tobe Liston, was in his mid-40s when he and his wife, Helen Baskin, who was almost 30 years younger than Tobe, moved to Arkansas from Mississippi in 1916. Helen had one child before she married Tobe, and Tobe had 13 children with his first wife.