Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Byrd in Flight: Donald Byrd (Blue Note). Byrd has two voices: he can jab out his message with agility, brilliance and exuberance, or he can build in long, open-throated lines, as expansive as any now coming from a trumpet. Both are well served here in such numbers as Little Boy Blue and his own composition...
...glib political oratory we have heard this progress called standing still. If the great things you have done are 'standing still,' then I say America needs more of it." Ike's best crack, by far, was a stinging jab at Kennedy's repeated references to a drop in U.S. prestige: "My friends, anyone who seeks to grasp the reins of world leadership should not spend all his time wringing his hands...
...about the Kennedy-Johnson ticket as "sufficient instruction'' to vote for Nixon-Lodge. In rebuttal, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, sometime Byrdman who has gradually set up a separate camp of his own, spoke up for Jack Kennedy and seized the chance for a sly jab at Byrd and his lieutenants. "I am certainly not going to label these distinguished Virginians as Republicans," said Almond with deadpan irony. "Senator Goldwater has already done that. Whether his statement is a compliment or an accusation is a matter for these gentlemen to deal with as they...
...forth, too. A greying 51, veteran of 23 years in Congress, he pointed up boyish-looking, 43-year-old Jack Kennedy's comparative youth and inexperience by warning that the "forces of evil," meaning international Communism, "will have no mercy for innocence, no gallantry toward inexperience." With another sly jab, Johnson hit at the Kennedy drive to corral convention delegates: "I would not presume to tell my fellow Democrats that I am the only man they should consider for this job or to demand that any delegate or delegation vote for me. I am not going to go elbowing through...
...Adlai Stevenson came in for the hardest knock of the pre-convention brickbat-throwing when speechmaking New York Delegate (and former Democratic National Chairman) James A. Farley, in what was interpreted as a jab at Stevenson, hit at Democratic "appeasers" who wanted the U.S. to pursue a softer line in dealing with Russia...