Word: jugular
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...detractors often accuse Vice President Spiro Agnew of having an instinct for the jugular. Actually, Agnew aims slightly higher. During the Bob Hope Desert Classic three months ago, he hit a drive that bounced off the head of Golf Pro Doug Sanders. Last week the game was tennis. The Vice President and Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing...
...terms of investigative reporting, the HurBus is miserable and always has been," Baughman said. "Maybe somebody with more of a nose for news, with more of an instinct for the jugular vein, might make it a more elaborate paper." Baughman, who is wrapping up his two-year term as Publications Board chairman next month, was in a particularly good position to evaluate the newspaper and to give his comments on the record...
...only in selective service but in other institutions. I am equally convinced that brutal confrontations and violence will make this change more difficult. The need is, not to tear down the system, but to make use of its possibilities." The statement took aim at an issue that is the jugular vein to the nation's politics and the heart to the movement that activates concerned students. The nation decries violence and disruption while the students protest injustices and the failures of the system...
...finishes by apologizing for the outburst, explaining, "I've just been itching to get my hands on this microphone for a long time now," as if someone had been preventing him. As it turns out, however, it is only his instinct for the public emotional jugular that has held him back. He spends the rest of the afternoon wandering from caucus to caucus, speaking whenever he wants to at whatever mike is nearest, obviously enjoying his frequent conversations with women in the audience...
...yang, the classic Chinese harmony of opposites. The humbling fact is that animals achieve such harmony better than humans. Unlike men, animals retain instinctive devices that end their conflicts short of murder. When one wolf defeats another in a fight for territory, the loser commonly exposes its jugular to the stronger opponent-a form of honorable surrender that the winner peaceably accepts without further aggression. Not only is the loser preserved in the process-so is the species...