Word: stabs
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...many a U. S. citizen assumes that, supposing England could be laid low by this stab in her economic vitals, Mr. Gandhi would then stop spinning and buy a decent suit of clothes from his Asiatic fellowmen, the Japanese. Not at all: a mistaken idea. Well, then, surely he would stop if he could put a wall around India, behind which Indians could set up their own efficient textile mills and produce cloth cheaper than it can ever be made by hand. By no means! The spinning crusade is an economic war, first against England, second against Japan, third against...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...
...bright shirts in solid contrasting colors you could not tell the teams apart. Two rhythms work in jai alai like the separate yet dependent movements of a fugue. One is the sweep of the cesta. catching the ball on the back swing, throwing it the same second with a stab or a sweep, depending upon whether the player wants to make a long shot or a cut. The other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward the wall as the server, after bouncing the ball, hooks it, swings it back and then forward...
...when the noble Grundy saw the jackass stab...
...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...