Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer session will feature the traditional Wednesday Yard Punch and Thursday lecture series, as well as a conference on "The City and History." The conference aims to stimulate scholarly interest in the role of the city in history and to provide "themes from the past" to serve as bases for consideration of contemporary problems. Top professors from Harvard and other American and foreign universities will present papers...
...change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a featherbed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching. -F.D.R., as quoted by Marriner Eccles...
Into an auditorium filled with some 4,000 Navy and Marine officers marched spray-fresh Navy Secretary John B. Connally Jr. to punch at the featherbed. Connally had called the meeting of every officer in the Washington area, including 65 admirals and Marine generals, to inform them that the Navy must scrape off its barnacles and gear for space-age change...
...office equipment and brought a change in the corporate name to Smith-Corona Marchant. Out came a stream of new products. Among them: a new line of small calculators, and two compact, electronic business machines-the Typetronic 2215 and 6615-which are basically educated typewriters. Linked to either a punch taper or a computer, they can do such tasks as filling out orders and calculating accounts. Smith-Corona also will have on the market within a year a photo copier that may turn out to be its hottest product yet: a desktop size, electrostatic model, which will reproduce letters...
...they have a special distinction: because the twelve are always on station at their high-altitude guard posts, they constitute a brand-new weapon in the U.S. arsenal. They are the airborne answer to the threat of Soviet Russia's growing missile force, the minimum strike-back punch that the U.S. can deliver even if the Soviets should devastate all the 100 SAC bases and their grounded planes. The constantly flying Daily Dozen give the U.S. a defense that, as SAC Chief Thomas Power says, "never has been attempted in the military history of the world before...