Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team came during a skirmish with a Czech player: one of the Americans got "a light left jab in there...
...skits constantly jab at Wilson, editorialists attack him regularly, and political hounds of every breed yap at his heels. Even the left and right wings of Wilson's Labor Party are in the full cry of revolt. Veteran Right Wing M.P. Desmond Donnelly has bucked party discipline, and called for Wilson's resignation. Says Laborite M.P. Reginald Paget: "It really boils down to the fact that Harold Wilson has reached the stage which Lloyd George reached at a certain point-that no one in the world believes a word he says...
...from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with Peking entirely "if China continues to insult us and interfere in our affairs." Then, knowing exactly how to jab the Maoists, he added that "the Chinese practice an imperialism stronger than the Americans...
Weinberger of Ottawa once shielded himself with a sheet of nylon and let a Canadian soldier jab at him with a bayonet. Anyone would have thought him mad. But the bayonet scarcely dented the fabric...
When used as a club, the billy too often shatters on a suspect's skull, forcing a policeman to resort to his gun. The billy is better used to poke and jab at the kidneys and other vulnerable areas; law-enforcement experts are now urging more and better training in billy arts. Indeed, the billy itself can be improved...