Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound class, hard-punching Art Campbell took a controversial decision from a faster-moving Kim Johnson. In a slow first round Johnson displayed a hard left jab but failed to throw it with any regularity. Campbell landed a few strong combinations to the body...
Johnson opened round two with more sharp jabbing, but sometime in mid-round he made the mistake of abandoning the jab-and-retreat tactics for a frontal assault that cost him the round. The stronger Campbell took a few of Johnson's punches and then countered with a hail of powerful hooks and uppercuts that battered Johnson into the ropes...
...Clear-eyed again, Clay sprang from his corner in the sixth round. Rat-a-tat-tat, a flurry of eight punches made Liston double up. "Get mad, baby," Clay's handlers chanted. "Go after him." Fighting flatfooted, Cassius ripped off a roundhouse right that just missed. Jab, jab, jab, jab, the cut under Liston's eye began to ooze blood again. Two left hooks snapped Sonny's head back. Cassius sank back onto his stool and leaned through the ropes. "I'm gonna upset the world," he told a TV announcer...
...scrumptiously confide to her long-lost mate: "I want something I've been dreaming about for five years -a big fat double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...
...meanwhile they have been so well trained by Valentin Filatov that they are the essential stars of the Soviet circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along the way. They are so intelligent that they are painful to watch...