Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive and brilliant whipping, taking the bout in the third round on a technical knockout with his opponent reeling on the ropes. Except for the second period, during which Sauer rallied and held a slight edge, Bullitt consistently out-boxed him and handed out terrific punishment with a left jab to the body, right cross to the head, and final left hook routine...
...Conn, a handsome Irish toughie, brought up in Pittsburgh's brawl-proud East Liberty section, had been fighting since he was 14. He got his upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...
...clings to the belief that it will have done its task if the contracts let are fulfilled according to the time schedule originally established. . . . We now have ample evidence that the present method . . . results in too little production too late. . . ." > NPA's last point was in effect a jab at Franklin Roosevelt, who up to this week had yet to clarify and centralize defense responsibility: "The best of intentions will come to nought if it is not clear who is to plan and for what things, and who is to execute...
Last week in Washington the American Medical Association, which has long been fighting group health schemes, got a stiff left jab to the solar plexus; the arm behind the punch was the Federal Government's. After legal proceedings lasting two and a half years, the Association, and its Washington branch, were convicted by a Federal District Court of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust...