Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, Nixon is tense, and his phrasing less skillful. Visibly he struggles for dignity, for sincerity, for occasional folksiness. People some times chat to one another during his speech. And when Nixon delivers a punch line, the crowd often hesitates a split second then applauds loudly and nervously, as if each person were afraid the others would stop...
Massachusetts politics often resembles a Punch and Judy show with no one pulling the strings backstage. There is always a fight going on, but, as often as not, it is among the good guys, rather than against the bad guys. No behind the-scenes manipulation runs the state, a fact evident in the present campaign...
...television; he repeated them to the Symphony Hall audience, as though here were people who could be expected to understand and appreciate comments the television audience would resent. And indeed he had every right to expect it, for the lines were really quite tame, had no particular punch, reflected indeed the thoughts of most run-of-the-mill liberals in the country today. What would have been interesting to hear are the remarks he doubtless makes in small groups, at parties, perhaps to himself, prefaced by a succinct aside: "Well, gang, here's something that I didn't think...
Dartmouth demonstrated a sizable scoring punch in Knocking four tallies past second-team all-Ivy goalie Denny Master and whipping Brown, 4 to 1, earlier this season. Princeton, perhaps the major threat to another Crimson championship, needed everything it had to defeat the Indians...
...When the Big Ten fumbled through a mediocre season last year-including Wisconsin's humiliating 44-8 loss to Washington in the Rose Bowl-the experts began wondering aloud whether the famed football conference had lost its punch. This season the Big Ten began promisingly by winning ten and losing none against non-conference teams. But not until last week, when Big Ten teams turned on one another, was it clearly apparent from the skill and violence of play that the Midwest was back in form. Undefeated Ohio State, ranked fifth in the nation, routed fourth-ranked Illinois...