Word: punch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of sales, complained that some of the workers were being careless with ads; he took over, promptly pied a full-page ad. Since the printers had taken their tools with them, Oregonian Editor Robert C. Notson had to use a tiny screwdriver from his key ring to punch leads between the linotype slugs on Page...
...company's fees were about $1,800,000 a year when Booz retired in 1946 and Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting machine's ability to organize them. Holding that management analysts should continuously analyze themselves, Allen set up a think department to do nothing but figure out new services the firm could offer to an ever widening circle of clients...
...Green wins, it can hold on to a chance for first place in the League. But the spotlight of the day will be on New Haven. And there it seems that the Crimson will prove the old chestnut: Yale has the Bowl, but Harvard has the punch...
Anticipating the rough-and-tumble days ahead, Arizona's Barry Goldwater last week threw a roundhouse punch. The U.S. has indeed gone "soft," said the stalwart of the G.O.P. Old Guard, but the blame rests with "Senator John Kennedy and his fellow Democratic lawmakers. These people in the last 30 years have made us soft because of an abundance of federal controls, federal spending and unnecessary foreign entanglements...
Particularly effective is Holbrook's timing. He takes time out to light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...