Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited-war headquarters" that would cut across service lines. Wrote he: "There is no single headquarters anywhere which supervises the planning for overseas movements or verifies readiness for movement. The cost would be negligible, but the advantage gained very considerable." Taylor would also give ground forces a nuclear backup punch as a further deterrent...
Murdock likes to become his own tenant. The Guaranty Bank was born when Murdock idly remarked at a cocktail party: "I wish I had a bank in my building." Huddling over a punch bowl, his companions leaped at the idea, joined Murdock in pledging $960,000 toward the founding of the bank-whose stock has jumped from $20 to better than $70 in the past 13 months. The prime tenant in the bigger of Murdock's two downtown buildings will be the Union Title & Trust Co., which was organized by Murdock and his friends in April, overnight became...
...girdle journal to berate the Harvard crack pots, the gentlemen and the scholars. I hope you will follow the medieval example of my day when I was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and send all the candidates out to confiscate this journal and cremate all copies available in the Punch Bowl and put the fire out with good beer...
...wounded blabbers, who talk about themselves in cocktail party words that taste like the 14th anchovy. A few of Feiffer's targets have been pocked heavily by other satirists, and one blackout aimed at the telephone company, a monolith that fascinates all of the new comics, uses a punch line similar to one of Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising or the CIA. Feiffer's models are the very sort of people who think it is fashionable (the in word...
During his 60 years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop...