Word: jabbing
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...Yale) Buckley Jr.. 36, affects the role of an ideological provocateur, inciting arguments before the largest possible crowd. But except for an occasional appearance on TV-once with Jack Paar-Buckley has been forced to jab at liberals ("powerful but decadent'') and other targets within the confines of lecture halls or through his own little magazine...
...entering, but Liston soon graduated to grander crime, served two years in the state prison at Jefferson City, Mo., for a series of restaurant robberies. There Liston met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. He memorized helpful hints from Joe Louis' My Life Story (sample: "Never jab at your target; always try to jab through it"), soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
...vast perversity"), but the vigor of their responses suggests that 29-year-old Playwright Gelber has touched some exposed nerve ends of the contemporary scene as he did in his first play about dope addicts, The Connection. Gelber likes to break the neck off the bottle of experience and jab the audience with the jagged edges, including several unhousebroken words. The result may not be drama, but it is the season's liveliest theatrical conversation piece...
...Exiled in Havana in 1951, he was attacked on the street by a man who attempted to jab poison into Betancourt's left arm with a hypodermic needle...
Outhouses & Spare Parts. Returning to the air the following night. Paar said: "Welcome to 'Beat the Press.' I have resumed nuclear testing." But throwing only a jab or two at the domestic enemy ("Some reporters write with crayons"), he settled down quickly to a chatty description of the foreign enemy in Moscow. Astonishingly enough, Paar as a reporter proved to be absolutely superb, from his description of the eerie silence of Russian crowds to his sketch of the ambitious personality of his Intourist guide. In one felicitous phrase, he marveled at the lack of a cultural and technological...