Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish checkpoint on the border. Last week Spain dealt the colony the cruelest jab yet. At the border, Spanish police swung two heavy iron gates across the road and turned a key in a rusty padlock, halting all vehicular traffic and overland trade between Gibraltar and the mainland...
After six years in Paris studying cello and savoring the food, Norman Goss decided he would rather take a flyer in the restaurant business than starve as a musician. He chose the name Stuft Shirt both as a satiric jab at his neighbors and to convey the idea of a well-filled belly. There are now three Stuft Shirt restaurants in Southern California -best and newest a Venetian-style palace at Newport Beach...
...final jab of the evening came predictably, from El Khatib who had been on the offensive all evening. When asked why he felt Japan's Democray was superficial, he replied that "the Japanese have a unique dexterity with imitation, and I can't help but feel that their government is a copy which includes a fundamental Right-Left split...
Stunted Redwood. It was the only round he won. Landing five punches for every one he took, Clay bounced jab after jab off Chuvalo's unguarded forehead; his slashing right raised big pink lumps on the Canadian's pudgy face. In the eleventh round, Cassius staggered Chuvalo with a flurry of combinations; in the 13th, he landed at least 30 solid punches-left jabs, left hooks, straight rights, right uppercuts. By the end of the 15th round, Chuvalo's eyes were slits; he was cut on the scalp and right eyebrow, and blood was trickling from...
...invective-hurling president of the Transport Workers Union, probably made his Last Hurrah. Faced with division and opposition within his own union, he seemed to hunger for a final epic fight, openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still, he demonstrated...