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Bang-Bang-Bang. Relaxed and loose, he cautiously circled the Dutchman, spotted a sudden opening. He threw a left jab to the belly and De Bruin, gaping in surprise, dropped to the canvas. De Bruin picked himself up at the count of one, sparred warily for a moment, then rocked Robinson with a hard right. At round's end Robinson confided to Gainford and Trainer Peewee Beale: "Man, that cat can smoke" (that fighter...
Quietly, Nicholson packed his bags and departed for Bagdad. Correspondent Delmer got off a last jab at the government as he bought air passage to Beirut. He handed the telegraph office a message to his office, knowing it would be relayed to Iranian officials. Wrote Delmer: "I called the Persian government oil-grabbers and contract-breakers, and I still...
...right, but it was time, high time, for Mr. Ormsby to change more than his socks. Not that he ever would change; his marriage fitted him like a diaper. It suited Mother too; she didn't mind tending him like an infant, so long as she could jab him with the pin whenever she pleased. Of course, it had been pretty hard on their only son, growing up between a father he despised and a mother he feared-so hard that he had run away and enlisted in the Marines. Now he was dead, a hero, and today...
Like The Barkeep of Blémont (TIME, May 15), Aymé's sardonic jab at the Resistance movement, The Miraculous Barber insists that even in times of historical crisis men display their customary capacity for making fools of themselves...
Communist officials in the satellite nations of Eastern Europe suddenly found themselves undergoing a sharp, persistent needling. From somewhere in Western Germany a mobile radio transmitter kept punctuating its first-rate entertainment programs to jab at Red stooges with a disquieting array of names, addresses and facts about the rigors of Communist rule. The station identified itself by four peals of the Freedom Bell. Its call letters: RFE, for Radio Free Europe...