Word: jab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to a New Jersey flag factory. At Sasso's direction, a group of aides gathered at the front of the plane to concoct a sound bite that would contrast Bush's flag-draped photo opportunity with Dukakis' upcoming speech on universal health insurance. The winning jab: "I have a question for Mr. Bush: Don't you think it's about time you came out from behind the flag and told us what you intend to do to provide basic health care for 37 million of our fellow citizens...
Turning pro in 1985, Tyson knocked out 18 men for a start, twelve of them within three minutes, six of those within 60 seconds. He did not jab them; he mauled them with both hands. They fell in sections. His first couple of fights were in Albany, on the undercard of the welterweight Rooney, at an incubator suitably titled "the Egg." Rooney worked Tyson's corner and then fought the main events. Knowing time was short, D'Amato thought to leave a trainer too. "We were fighters together first," says Rooney, 32, who has not warred in three years...
...brass ring was beyond his reach. Dukakis even kidded Jackson Friday night during their first one-on-one debate. When a questioner asked about Jackson's interest in the vice-presidential nomination, Dukakis ostentatiously stage-whispered, "Are you interested? Talk to me later." Jackson responded with a playful elbow jab...
...Dartmouth's] style of play is pretty physical," Melrose said. "With that comes the extra punch and the extra jab. In the second period, they were doing everything we were. But the ref kept giving us the penalty...
...time to come." That being so, Kohl and Honecker agreed to meet again in East Germany, though no date was set. West German Industrialist Otto Wolff von Amerongen may have best summed up the mood when he met the East German leader in Cologne. Alluding to Honecker's banquet jab, he said, "As long as the German people are not on fire or under water, we may be O.K." Throughout a trip filled with tension, it was one of the few lines that brought a smile to Honecker's lips...