Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist officials in the satellite nations of Eastern Europe suddenly found themselves undergoing a sharp, persistent needling. From somewhere in Western Germany a mobile radio transmitter kept punctuating its first-rate entertainment programs to jab at Red stooges with a disquieting array of names, addresses and facts about the rigors of Communist rule. The station identified itself by four peals of the Freedom Bell. Its call letters: RFE, for Radio Free Europe...
...coping took a little longer than Sugar figured. But by the fifth round Robinson's rapier left jab had jarred Villemain out of his protective shell, and in the ninth he put Villemain away with three sharp left-right combinations. This week, $17,000 richer, Sugar Ray set off on a final fling-a charity fight in Frankfurt-before loading up his entourage for the boat ride home...
Like Nick Barone himself, fight fans were reconsidering Ezzard's virtues last week. They included a poised defense that turned aside with glove or shoulder most of Barone's punches, a flickering left jab which, though it packed no knockout drops, did a thorough job of dulling his opponent's reflexes, and a stout right smash that put Barone away in round eleven. At 29, Ezzard Charles had a polished boxing style that was not Joe Louis', but was still mighty effective in its own way. It might be a long time before the fans...
This was hardly over before the President got a hatpin-sized jab from a new di rection: the deadpan announcement from the railway unions that they proposed to strike, after he had just been assured that they would not. At his press conference next day, the President seemed to be seething with repressed indignation against the union leaders...
...what soft spot would the probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia's neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the U.S.S.R.'s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. A well-nigh endless series of footling governments has done little to help...