Word: jabbing
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...between the second and third rounds my manager told me I was winning the fight--to stay cool, move, jab and throw the right," Casey explained. He did much more, landing solid combinations throughout the round and winning the bout going away...
...contention that the truly needy were still protected by a "social safety net." White House Communications Director David Gergen angrily charged that the documentary hit "below the belt," and that some of Moyers' examples were misleading. CBS stood by the program, and Moyers has continued to jab at Reaganomics in his Evening News commentaries. In December, for example, he began an analysis with these assertions: "This country is in trouble. People are hurting. The people who govern us acknowledge the dangers, but they continue to act at odds with reality...
...ruminations on U.S. Soviet relationships in the chapter on Khruschev and Brezhnev, for example, are moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses...
Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants another play from me she can fish for it." Yet when she dies a year or so later, he breaks down: "With all her overactings and silliness I have never known her to do a mean or an unkind thing. I am terribly, terribly unhappy to think that I shall...
...strong work ethic has propelled Pellegrini into the NFL. His teammates have noticed it. Nitti says that Pellegrini is "one of the hardest workers I've seen in football whether it be in practice or in the weight room." Nitti, however, can't let that comment through without a jab: "Joe's only problem is that he cannot talk right. The first time I heard Joe talk he asked if he should move the ball to the farty-yahd line--the whole team fell over laughing...