Word: jabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public debt has swelled from $23 billion to $298 billion, and the number of federal employees has grown from 580,000 to 2,500,000. This is an issue about which Byrd, far from being resigned with the passing of the years, is still expertly indignant. Last week he jabbed a finger at a sheet of statistics on his cluttered desk and complained: "The civilian employment in Government went up 35,000 in just the last month." Jab, jab, jab went the finger. "Just think of that-35,000 in the last month...
...brought down the house with his very first line; few had ever seen the President laugh so hard. His "serious mattahs" and "in my views" were unmistakably Kennedy, and his "we must move ahead" sounded like the call to federal service. Reid had his Kennedy deliver a playful jab or two at British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was also present: "He has covahed such a wide range of topics and made so many things cleah, including several centuries of British history . . . These are, these are not easy mattahs - even if you're British...
...think the same lines as the apparatus." All in all, it was a shoddy and confused display of name-calling without evidence. Senators of all persuasions, saddened by the performance, forbore to question him hard. Upon leaving the hearing room. Walker paused long enough to throw a right jab at a questioning newsman- Tom Kelly of the Scripps-Howard Washington Daily News. Then he headed back to Texas, where he is a candidate for Governor-and seems likely to finish low among six Democratic primary contenders...
...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...