40 years ago today, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and his license to box. Why? Because the champ, who had renounced his birthname of Cassius Clay upon his conversion to the Nation of Islam, had refused induction into the U.S. military, claiming conscientious objector status. The boxing authorities—and the army—were unimpressed, but the newly subemployed fighter proved tenacious about his case, and the Supreme Court ultimately reversed the draft-evasion conviction of the self-professed 'Greatest of All Time.' (来源：老牌的英语学习网站 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

Muhammad Ali was neither flower child nor whacked-out from too many blows to the cranium, but his bottom line—in addition to his oft-quoted one-liner about "having no beef with the Vietcong"—was that he sincerely and conscientiously objected to participation in any war.

Four decades later, what sort of wordsmithing can we add to this tale? Just this. The same year Ali lost his license and title, our lexicon welcomed the following terms into print: self-professed; subemployed; flower child; bottom line; and whacked-out. 1967 was also the year of the one-liner and of the term body count.