Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clay, cornering him against the ropes time and again. Then once he had the champ tied up, he started swinging furiously with his right, showering blows alternately on Ali's kidney and nape. Variations on the attack included a headlock before he started the pounding and a straight-on butt where he would plant his lowered head in Ali's midsection and drive at a turnbuckle. Among the few punches Terrell delivered face on were sneak shots delivered after referee Harry Kessler signalled a break...
...rest are accidental, and 80% of the accidents are "the result of sheer carelessness." A common case is the hunter who drops his loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw for the benefit of his buddies, only to discover that his trigger finger was faster than his draw. He drilled a hole right through his foot...
...inspection trip, he toured airports, where most car rentals take place. At each stop, Ally says, he prowled through parking lots of both companies, emptying ashtrays into paper bags. "There wasn't an awful lot of difference," he says wryly. "We lost in Tulsa, for instance, by one butt. But in Amarillo they had two more cigarettes and a half-eaten taco...
...does have drawbacks. Its lightweight, plastic butt is liable to shatter in hand-to-hand combat, where the infantryman often clobbers his enemy with the stock. Moreover, its high sight -necessitated by the carrying handle that serves as the rear sighting plane-means that a dug-in rifleman must expose his head and chest to aim carefully. But the rapid rate of fire more than compensates: in Korea with the slow-firing Garand, less than one-quarter of the troops fired their weapons in battle; in Viet Nam with the M16, everyone fires copiously. Many riflemen lug 600 rounds into...
...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...