Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain Chuck Gamble, a 5 ft., 9 in. guard, adds some outside punch to the Engineers offense, and is the leading playmaker. With another big man (by Eastern standards) in 6 ft., 4 in. Bill Weber, a sophomore from Buenos Aires, the Techmen should be able to match the Crimson under the boards...
...countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...
...Dartmouth's Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. said that "every admissions officer in the United States would give five years of his life" if he could use an IBM machine to cull freshmen. But no one has yet found the right punch-card formula, Chamberlain mused, a trifle sadly, in the Saturday Evening Post. "One wag predicts it is more likely we shall find a way to punch holes in the candidates and run them through the machines...
...these and other scenes, every line was taken from the speaker's actual addresses or writings, thus turning the sequences into stark, strident, sometimes awkward exchanges of punch lines rather than into coherent dialogues. But punchy they were, as when Clemenceau (Eric Berry) delivered his famous judgment on Wilson (Harry Townes): "God gave us his Ten Commandments; we broke them. Wilson gave us his Fourteen Points; we shall see." On the whole, the note of authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough...
...computer, last of the big electronic brains to punch in, put the odds on a Kennedy victory...