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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...
...Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...
...Stab at Suiyuan. Japan's Kwantung Army, recent conquerors of Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...