Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ASTOR: A pair of biting and powerful British films about angry young men on the way to nowhere. The much celebrated ROOM at the Top has all the punch of John Braine's novel, thanks to the acting of Simone Signoret and Lawrence Harvey. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is, if anything better. It has the advantage of superb screenplay by young Alan Sillitoe ("The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner") and near perfect execution of the lead by Albert Finney, an actor hailed by some as the next Olivier. See them both...
...within ten yards of the goal, slightly to the left. Hesitating long enough to make the goalie commit himself, O'Hiri streaked past him on the left. On the point of going out of bounds to the left of the Cornell cage, he stopped the ball and twisted to punch a right footed kick high into the goal, less than a foot inside...
With ten returning lettermen, a good crop of sophomores, and the enthusiasm engendered by a new coach, Cornell played perennially strong Penn to a scoreless tie Saturday and finally beat them in overtime, 1 to 0. "Either both lines lacked scoring punch," Munro commented, "or there were some terrific defenses. I have a feeling it was the latter...
...center of exuberant conviviality. Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled years later the occasion of the transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...
...into fluctuations of pressure. Microbarographs can detect this pressure wave more than 1,000 miles away. The U.S. has a ring of microbarographs waiting for interesting waves to wash down from the Soviet border. A clear reading from a microbarograph gives a good estimate of an explosion's punch...