Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
Ernie's basic strategy was to jab, feint and collapse on top of Eddie. Eddie's strategy was martyrdom. In the first round, Ernie bloodied Eddie's nose; in the 15th, he tackled him and knocked him to the canvas. In between, Ernie massaged the back of Eddie's neck and the seat of his pants. For good measure, he gave the referee a couple of pats too. That won him a unanimous decision that 6,587 fans booed for 15 minutes. Said Joe Louis, who spent the evening suffering in Ernie's corner: "Terrell...
Jack D'Arcy of Dudley House scored a TKO over Leverett's Bill O'Day in the 145-pound class. D'Arcy displayed a powerful left jab that almost closed O'Day's right eye. D'Arcy also beat O'Day in last year's tournament...
...Initiative. The contrasting call from the right, for more toughness and less talk, was heard in varied accents. "We submit that it is a curious way to fight a war when you wait for the enemy to sock you first before returning a light jab," said the Chicago Tribune. "As our global strategy is the same, the prospect for the survival of freedom doesn't look too encouraging, even for the U.S." In Atlanta, the Journal also faulted the U.S. for "permitting the initiative to rest with the Communists...
Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...