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...killing punch, backtracked nimbly, protected his head with his arms, and bided his time. As Turpin began to run out of steam-he had boxed less than 30 rounds in training -Bobo began his own offensive: a rat-tat-tat of light lefts and rights with just enough poke to them to keep Turpin off balance...
...about that. Among their better recordings: Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs ("I cocked an eye at her, she cocked an eye at me/ And we just sit there cockeyed as could be"); You Belong to Me No. 2 ("Bring me pawpaws in a paper poke / Send me money, darlin' when I'm broke / Make your will out to me when you croak / You belong...
...rest was easy. Sheriff Perry found that Prisoners Hamelin and Hamblin were old hands at picking the old, rotary-type locks used in Burlington's jail. Each night after lockup, the two men would unlock their cells, drop down through an old manhole to the basement, poke through the brick wall, ransack deserted stores and return to the jailhouse. Why didn't they just keep right on going to freedom? Reasoned Sheriff Perry for his prisoners: why break up a good thing when you have a perfect alibi...
...foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...
Psychological Warfare. When Jenny first opened in Midsummer during its out-of-town run four months ago, everyone thought she was awfully cute, darling. The air grew chillier when Jenny took a poke at Barry Blake, another child actor in the play. Then the grownup actors-who can be just as sensitive in these matters as children-took offense when Jenny started stealing scenes from them, by mugging or winking at the audience. Backstage, Jenny thumbed her nose at Actress Vicki Cummings' maid, and, it was charged, even mother Hecht insulted Hollywood Actor Mark Stevens (playing Jenny...