Word: jabbing
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...centennial celebration of the Harvard Lampoon, included a cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however belated, by the Lampoon." But the Poonies got the last jab when they rolled out an additional gift-a $13,000 purple and gold Cadillac specially fitted out for the author of The Affluent Society...
...feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind her harlequin glasses as an appealing, attractive woman. "I always knew you was beautiful," Rocky whispers. With a sharp jab from the left, Rockybecomes a love story...
Despite occasional electric shocks, Major and his adversary battled to a 4-4 sudden death situation before Major inflicted the deciding jab, known in fencing as "La belle touche...
...forum in Minneapolis, a woman complained: "He reminds me of Johnny Carson discussing the issues." But Bayh gives his all to everyone he meets. Nobody high or low, friendly or hostile, is spared some gesture of affection-a slap on the back maybe, a poke in the ribs, a jab to the shoulder-as if Bayh were still a Golden Gloves light-heavyweight boxing champion. "If he does that once again," Robert Kennedy is reported to have grumbled, "I'll punch him in the nose." But most people like the Bayh touch...
...more attention than if some nut just wrote you a letter," said Anderson. Accordingly, Montreal police were notified, and they arranged for a secret hotel room and plainclothes guard. His protection thus assured, Anderson ventured out to make his speech-which included his standard quick jab at the FBI for keeping dossiers on prominent Americans...