Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...
Bellows' bittersweet quality comes clear in the two pictures (opposite) that are favorites with gallerygoers in Manhattan and Bellows' home town of Columbus, Ohio. The Whitney Museum's Dempsey and Firpo shows Bellows at his toughest- hard, sweaty, and as direct as a left jab. He was at ringside with a commission from the New York Journal to draw the fight. He chose the instant when Firpo nailed the overconfident champion, sent him through the ropes and into the ringside seats. Children on the Porch, at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, shows Bellows on the opposite...
Matthews South, freshman basketball champions, defeated the 1951 champion Matthews South team 40 to 29 yesterday afternoon at the JAB. Intramural wrestling finals will be the attraction tonight at the Blockhouse...
...Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily...
...round, Matthews nimbly danced away from most of Marciano's bullish lunges, but caught a slam-bang one-two on the jaw just before the bell. The referee steered the Kid toward his own corner. In the other corner, Marciano's manager then told Rocky: "Stop hooking. Jab first-then hook and double it up." About two minutes later, Rocky applied the advice. Matthews went down on to the seat of his boxing trunks as if his ring record (unbeaten since 1943) had been pulled out from under him, took a count of 10. Mauler Marciano (42 victories...