Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh wound on Galento's chin which Tony's disgruntled brother had caused by slinging a beer glass at him two nights before. By the seventh round Galento was spouting blood, reeling drunkenly, his eyes closed, his head throbbing where he had landed with a running, broad butt at Baer's jaw. When the bell rang for the eighth round, Galento sat on his stool, called it quits...
...Boenninghausen, Nazi member of the 'First Chamber of Parliament, took exception to two detectives who watched the Chamber's proceedings through a half-open door, tried to jerk the door wide open. One of the detectives rapped his knuckles with a revolver butt. The other slammed the door in his face. Purple-faced Nazi Boenninghausen demanded that the detectives be removed. Replied the Chamber's President Baron de Vos van Steenwyk: "You will be the one removed, if you do not calm yourself...
Unlike Folsom points, which at the butt ends are square and barbed, Sandia points are pointed at both ends, have a characteristic indentation or "shoulder" on one side. Apparently Sandia Man built fires at the cave mouth to cook the animals he killed, and ate them inside. Like Folsom Man, he is a ghost-no human skeletal material has been found. But Dr. Hibben plans further excavation this summer, hopes that remains of Sandia Man, or of Folsom Man, or of both, may come to light...
...following 34 years Willie Hoppe walked 50,000 miles around billiard tables, played against Nicholas Longworth before President Taft, was the butt of quips by Humorist Samuel Clemens, saw Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other great sport figures pass their peak, fade out of competition...
...mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged men to be intelligent in their piety. The Habad leader was Rabbi Schneer Zalman, first of a line which took the name Schneersohn and the title Lubavitcher Rabbi-from...