Word: jabbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers can be expected to jab at Harvard's weak spots in the middleweights. Crimson regulars George Baker (144), Mike Dee (150), John Keough (158) and Bruce Johnson could pull it off, as both have accumulated winning records this season...
...intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone will be able to produce power from fusion in less than 20 or 30 years. "When you hear scientists boasting that they will achieve it in two or three years," he says, in an obvious jab at his crosstown rivals, "don't believe it." But he has no doubt that controlled fusion will eventually be achieved: "Probably just before man needs...
...attack on Hue. So far there is no certainty that such an attack is coming. The city's defense is primarily in the hands of a single ARVN division, the 1st, which would be hard pressed if the enemy tried a flanking movement that culminated in a sudden jab at Hue. South Vietnamese commanders seemed confident that a Communist attack on Hue could be kept in check by U.S. bombing...
...program does not lack for humor: "Celestial," the last of the three parts, breaks the more serious, introspective mood of the preceding works with a jab at ballet and even at rock dancing. From the wings leap blue-jeaned, mod T-shirted dancers to the classical strains of Tchaikovsky while simultaneously, pastel lights expose large cardboard stars, ringed Saturn, a large puffy white cloud, and a smiling crescent moon dropping down from the heavens. When the mock Corps de Ballet appears together--barely a semblance of unity--they cause bursts of laughter by purposely bumping into one another and getting...
Over the past two years, George's own crowd-pleasing style has changed somewhat. At 6 ft. 2in. he is consistently taller than most of his opponents, and he uses his quickness and long left jab to stay out of trouble...