Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried. He flicked the famous snakelike jab, laced together combinations and shot rights to Spinks' head. It was exquisitely conceived boxing from Ali, the aesthetician of ring art. But what the canny mind desired, the 36-year-old body?measuring itself now in the milliseconds between impulse and action?could not deliver. Age had slowed the timing: too many punches landed without sting, grazed past Spinks' youth-quick dodges or missed altogether...
...sudden silence: a pause of anticipation, and die volk were not disappointed. Within a minute the Prime Minister had gained the first murmurs of acclaim; within five minutes he had brought the crowd to its feet. When he wanted to drive home a point, it was not a jab but a double uppercut as he thrust both fists in the air. And when he wanted the world to listen?as he did last week?John Vorster switched from Afrikaans to deliberate and slightly accented English...
...when Carrillo replied to the Soviet assault. Said he jauntily at a Madrid press conference: "I didn't expect an excommunication decree from the Holy Office." Soon, he cracked, he would publish the New Times article in Spain, along with "clarifying notes." That, he added in a pointed jab at the Soviets' closed society, is "a method we recommend to our Soviet comrades so that their public opinion will be correctly informed...
...time) and is rewarded with the "large, white toothy smile" lighting the black president's face feels disappointed and foolish when the actual source of the conspiracy is revealed. Although Mayer jeers at immorality, he ultimately shifts the blame from us, perhaps in pursuit of, perhaps as a jab against happy endings. The conspiratorial evil is not the evil of earthlings. Instead Pxyzsyzygy, that impish elf from the Fifth Dimension, manipulates us and warps our innate goodness...
...official just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company. "You start dropping in 10,000-rupiah [$24] notes until he says that's enough and closes the drawer." Suharto, to his credit, has regularly denounced komersial-isasi jabátan (abuse of office). But the sight of generals and poorly paid bureaucrats riding about Jakarta in chauffeur-driven Mercedes limousines indicates that the warnings are not heeded...