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Sugar Ray Robinson fighting in tank towns, Joe Louis refereeing wrestling matches and glad-handing at Las Vegas casinos—but no one could have predicted such a fate when Ali was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.—John Schulian, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
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Etymology
from the fact that trains stopped at such towns only to take on water
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