Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
More than 70 of the organization's 30 members will go can the tour, traveling by bus and spending nights in the homes of College alumni. "We intend to combine vacationing with our playing," Delbanco remarked, noting that "the pierian's punch is as famous as its orchestra...
...Punch hurried valiantly into the breach with a supposititious Tourist Council brochure, which assures impoverished Americans that they are still welcome in Britain, where "our hospitality can be tailored to your diminished purse." Some helpful items...
...final edged note. Punch presents useful new phrases tailored to newly poor U.S. tourists. Recommends Punch: In stead of saying. "Will you folk never learn to make a chilled martini?", say "I am acquiring a taste for mild ale." For "Yeah, we did Scotland last week-end," substitute "I think we can afford the fare to Banbury." For "Keep the change, kid." try "Thank...
...taught, would be a step in the right direction in conditioning the body as well as adding to the psychological strength of the boy, without undue risk of injury-more so than in any other sport " New York's Dr. Harry A. Kaplan disputed the popular theory that "punch-drunkenness" is the result of repeated head blows during a boxing career Reporting on a ten-year study of 3000 electroencephalograms (recordings of the brain's electric currents) taken on boxers Dr. Kaplan found no relationship between boxing and degenerative brain disease. The "punch-drunk" ex-pug he concluded...