Word: stabs
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...ordered Japan to be free. Japanese officialdom bowed low, smiled and consented: very well, if they must, they would make a stab...
...chairman, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, is scared stiff of inflation, doubts it can be wholly avoided during the next three years. Utah Banker Eccles has thoroughly sold the Truman Administration, as he could never sell its predecessor, on the need for trimming Government expenditures and making a bold stab at trying-some day-to balance the budget...
Once, when Father Woollcott came home and kissed his son, little Aleck tried to stab him with a fork. Dressing up in his sister's clothes was his favorite pastime. By the time he went to school, the boy was a weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit." He would jeer at anyone who had a squint or a clubfoot; homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs...
...recent Jap-like stab in the back by a self styled amateur poet brings us to our feet, pen in hand and a curse on our lips. The "Light," so called, obviously minus his collegiate and Roget's Thesaurus is forced to rely on pilfered phrases such as "peasant," borrowed from those he seeks to persecute. These cowardly and poorly-rhymed attacks on our person by this word starved urchin of the Missouri wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before...
...bomb burst in the back. He was many months in hospital, was then honorably discharged. Private Davidowicz had broken in action, had been dishonorably discharged for leaving his post in the face of enemy fire. He had his own excuse for that: suffering from concussion, and bullet and stab wounds, he had abandoned his gun to go after a wounded...