Word: jugulars
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...Lord Buckley" and "Professor Moynihan," characterized by The New York Times as "that rambunctious child of the sidewalks of New York," have provided New Yorkers with one of the most exciting name-calling, go-for-the-jugular campaigns in years. If he wakes up Wednesday morning as the Empire State's junior Senator-elect, Moynihan would do well to remember his prescient observation in a 1969 address called "Politics As the Art of the Impossible...
...Ford was besieged on every side, Carter's camp worked overtime to take advantage of the situation. Nobody has ever accused Carter of lacking an instinct for the jugular, and he displayed it clearly throughout the week. For the first time since Labor Day, the Democratic candidate was scoring points with the voters, as he crisscrossed the country and hit hard at Ford at every stop. In his attacks, Carter was so aggressive that it was possible he would provoke a sympathetic backlash for Ford?if the allegations about him were shown to be untrue or grossly overblown...
Abbado's conducting was a deft blend of energy, delicacy and a Toscanini-like instinct for the dramatic jugular. Even better, perhaps, was his mercurial handling two nights later of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). This work is chamber music for the opera house and easily the high point of the composer's comic style. Abbado has that style in his bones...
...carded a 61 in the Phoenix. Miller has been rather dryly described as "a Mormon of abstemious habits who strides freely along the fairways with an air of dedicated, almost detached, purpose." But on Saturday he once again confirmed his ability to shoot for the jugular, as he humbled Royal Birkdale with a brilliant salvo of shots that earned him four birdies and an eagle on the thirteenth...
Founded in protest and nurtured in militancy, the black press long made a rough and sometimes roisterous contribution to U.S. news reporting. Thirty years ago the Pittsburgh Courier had 23 editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their...