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...Terry (Brennan) was surprisingly fast...he kept ducking under my jab and coming in. He likes to bull you on the ropes, work on the body. But he got me mostly with hooks, hooks don't hurt that much, they mostly get you on that rubber head thing you wear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heywood Downs Two and Gets Title After Years of Frustrated Pugilism | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heywood Downs Two and Gets Title After Years of Frustrated Pugilism | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

...than tentative heroes, canting psychiatrists, fumbling representatives of Mencken's American booboisie. A couple of heavyweight opponents are indeed invoked throughout Wanda June (the war in Viet Nam, the Christian religion). But Vonnegut dances around them like a kid from the Golden Gloves unwilling to risk even a jab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft-Core Satire | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...tried to direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that it was the worst form of niggerism to hook and jab, cut and stab at other blacks...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

...flow through the twelve channels and must be precisely balanced. Yang is variously translated as good, positive and "on the sunny side," while yin is bad, negative or "on the shadowy side." If a traditional acupuncturist diagnosed a patient as having too much yin somewhere, he would jab a selected point with a gold yang needle. In today's China, the newly respectable "scientific" acupuncturists rely mainly upon proletarian stainless steel. The modernists have added about 200 points to the list of accepted targets, and they sterilize their needles. But they are unable to explain how the treatment achieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yang, Yin and Needles | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

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