Word: stooling
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...young women who seemed to be inviting companionship struck up a conversation. A bellicose stranger suddenly intervened. "I was with these ladies." he barked, "and I don't like your butting in!" One thing led to another as the barroom tough shoved one of the women from her stool and hit Illinois Judge Robert Dean in the stomach, not once but twice. As the voices rose in anger, the police stepped...
...celebrated Beethoven thunderer like Viennese Pianist Alfred Brendel also proves a fine interpreter of Mozart, as he just has in this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major...
...addition, one observer stated, the schools and universities are filled with uniformed militiamen and with plain-clothes "stool-pigeons" to insure that students and professors do not take exception to official views...
...Minimanual, Marighella enjoins urban terrorists to carry out executions "with the greatest cold-bloodedness, calmness and decision." He particularly recommends "the killing of a North American spy, of an agent of the dictatorship, of a police torturer, of a fascist personality, or a stool pigeon, police agent or provocateur." To finance revolutionary endeavors, he suggests robbing banks; trying not to overlook anything, he goes so far as to advise "locking people in the bank bathroom, making them sit on the floor." For the urban guerrilla's arsenal, Marighella recommends "Molotov cocktails, gasoline, homemade contrivances such as catapults and mortars...
...between the third and fourth round a doctor looked at the cut over Quarry's eye and credited Clay with a third round TKO. Quarry jumped from his stool and in a bit of last minute histrionics rushed around the ring waving his arms in protest. Ironically, it was Quarry who had demanded the presence of two white doctors in his corner, instead of the two black physicians assigned by the state of Georgia...