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Word: jabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contact Dick Oster for a thumb-nail sketch of the nurses down at the Red Cross Bank. He has them classified according to the line of chatter they use before making the jab...

Author: By Jack Schindier, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

...walls were repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow. It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring the crowds past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Less than three weeks after the raid on Marcus Island, the U.S. Navy took another jab at Japan's eastern defenses. This one was a swipe at the flanks-the southerly Gilbert Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Jab at the Flanks | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...forces made another jab at Japan's inner defenses this week. The Japs had scarcely sucked in their breaths after the carrier raid on Marcus Island when U.S. bombers hit again, this time in the north, in the Kurile Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Again, the Kuriles | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Going in the Army soon?" It was the barber again, making conversation. "Yeah. Soon." Vag almost snapped it at him. The white coat retreated behind him, and he felt the hair jab him under his collar. "Damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/14/1943 | See Source »

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