Word: counterpunching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
...This time, when Joe Louis hit the floor, it looked as if he might stay there. He got up at the count of seven. Gradually, through the swelling roar, people realized that they were seeing a Joe Louis who had lost his stuff. Once he had used a deadly counterpunch as his best defense. Now, his reflexes were too slow. In the ninth, he had his best round, slugging it out with his lighter (by 16½ lbs.) foe. But Jersey Joe Walcott, backed into the ropes, took it all, and gave something in return...
...step, to produce the lush, powerful Stokowski tone. He improved broadcasting Studio 8-H with a new ceiling and a set of acoustical gadgets. The improvements left Conductor Toscanini (who had always kicked about the acoustics of Studio 8-H him self) biting his nails. Stokowski got a counterpunch in 1942 when he went east from California to make a bid for the U.S. premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, and found that Toscanini had snatched it from under his nose. Last week's announcement solemnly promulgated the theory that it is undesirable for the NBC Symphony...
...Roosevelt. Quick as a counterpunch, his textile workers, clothing workers, hosiery workers, Sidney Hillman of his executive board, defied him, plumped for a Third Term. John Lewis settled his chin in his neck and glared...