Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of the Bundestag, where he deftly maneuvers a bloc of 130 Socialist Deputies (against some 200 who normally stand by Adenauer), Schumacher evokes the same feelings. With painful-looking gestures, hissing sentences, here a lightning jab and there a sour sarcasm, he seems-whether he means to or not- the reincarnation of the rabble-rousers who all but destroyed his own body and led Germany down to catastrophe...
...doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility." After the bull got the needles...
Whether that jab is justified or not, this is a new departure for Graham-Greene -the first novel he has written in the first person. That fact signals a special effort, an attempt to go further than he has ever gone before. The first-person narrative is a tricky medium-especially when the person who tells the story is the somewhat seedy, not altogether admirable, Graham Greene type of "hero." And, as if that difficulty were not enough, Greene has added a second narrator: the book is divided between Bendrix' reminiscent story and Sarah's diary. Only...
After a few hours at one of these taverns, a sailor might feel the need to be tattoed. He won't have to go far, since there are five late-working jab artists within easy walking distance. The best of these, a rotund gentleman named Frank W. Liberty, claims to have had the honor of applying pigment to the undergraduate arm of one of the Roosevelt boys; he doesn't know which...
...first bout with Argentina's Cesar Brion last November, former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis squeaked by with a close decision. Last week, in San Francisco, aging (37) Joe Louis looked a little more like the old Brown Bomber. His left jab cut rugged Cesar Brion's face to ribbons, twice had him on the verge of a knockout before Louis won a unanimous decision at the final bell...