Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
...easier to differentiate them by their style. Kennedy's is tense, urgent, gritty. When the crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...
...less than a year. In the first, the unheralded Italian challenger astonished experts by easily outpointing Griffith for the title; in the second, last August, Emile won back the crown with his swarming attack. Now, once again, science and strategy proved superior to strength. Nino's flicking jab kept Emile out of hooking range; a short right followed by a lightning left cross dropped Griffith for a count of six in the ninth round; and the judges' vote was unanimous for Benvenuti, who left the ring wreathed with a smile and wrapped in an Italian flag...
...advising his supporters in New Hampshire or anywhere else about whom to work for. Like Rockefeller, he talked of the need for unity. Unlike Rockefeller, he also talked of the need for potential candidates to make clear their positions on major issues-most especially on Viet Nam. This jab hit Rockefeller in the vitals. There are few subjects on which he has been more silent recently, and his reticence has prompted rumors that he has modified his prowar stand of two years...
...thrown from behind or below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender hooks his stick around the puck as the attacker charges past...