Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most exciting fight of the evening for the five hundred fans in the IAB was the 175 lb. match won by Guzzi. Practically every punch thrown found its mark, and blood flowed from both noses...
...Improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger punch in a smaller package-that determines how many bombs an aircraft can carry or how great a destructive force a missile can pack. U.S. experts fear that the Russians have made great strides in this area...
...world of automation. Subscribers may note that their mailing labels are now white instead of pink, and that the type looks different, because your name and address are now "printed" by electrical impulse. This is just one small consequence of a massive switch that we have recently made from punch cards to a new system of Electronic Data Processing, which stores coded facts for each subscription on tapes...
...killer among the various kinds of cancer is losing its punch. Overall, between 1930 and 1959, the death rate per 100,000 from stomach cancer has dropped from 25.4 to 9.8, which multiplies out as 20,000 deaths in 1959. This drop, writes Buffalo's Dr. George E. Moore in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, "is adequate proof that gastric cancer is not inevitable." But the factors in the victim's way of life that might cause the disease remain to be identified...
...Hoots Then, Wumman!" Were they lovers? Tinsley's Magazine for October 1868 reported that the English gentry jokingly referred to the Queen (then 49) as "Mrs. Brown." Punch ran a satirical Court Circular detailing the doings of Mr. John Brown; another magazine published a cartoon of John Brown lolling against a vacant throne; a scurrilous pamphlet, "Mrs. John Brown," was circulated, with the claim that they were morganatic man and wife...