Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...
...Saturday afternoon. The Yardling outfit showed a marked improvement over last week's Tufts game, especially in the fielding and bade-running departments. Speedy Mike Rice gave a sparkling exhibition on the sacks and Ed Reddy turned in the fielding gem of the day with a running back hand stab...
Gamecocks kill each other with thrusts of their legs. There are two types of fighters: the shuffler (who strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...
Please go after that reviewer with your sharpest invective and "stab his spirit wide awake...
Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...