Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emotional Punch. Swarmed over by newsmen afterward, both Nixon and Kennedy were agreed on at least one thing: it was one fine brawl. "I thought we had a good exchange," said Nixon. "The difficulty is that 2½ minutes [per question] is not enough to discuss the issues. I had some loose ends to tie up. and I'm sure Senator Kennedy did too. I thought there was more clash in this." As they parted, the two gossiped about their road campaigns and what Nixon called "crowds-manship," i.e., rival claims as to the size of their respective audiences...
With that Kennedy left, walked down the corridor to his makeshift office. "You were great," said jubilant Bobby Kennedy, but Kennedyites sensed that Nixon had landed what they called an "emotional" punch in the exchange over Quemoy and Matsu. Said Jack: "Will somebody please get Jackie on the phone?" Richard Nixon, heading down Nebraska Avenue toward his Wesley Heights home, stopped at a traffic light, heard a motorist shout through the window: "You really clobbered him tonight." When he got home, one of his daughters met him at the door. "Daddy," cried she, "you did great!" A more impersonal reaction...
Problem number one is Mr. McCormick who has clicked on 18 of 30 passes for 252 yards and one touchdown in Mass's two games this season. McCormick is a master of the long pass--"the knock-out punch of football" to Yovicsin...
...optical scanner is a major, long-awaited breakthrough. The chief limitation of computers-aside from their inability to think except as told-is that they can record and process information only as fast as they are fed it, usually by bored and fallible humans who read the information, then punch it onto cards or tape for the computer. With the optical scanner, which can read up to 96,000 cards per day, the computer-and every paper-laden company-has found a powerful ally. Scanners already read and process insurance premium notices, gas station bills, travelers checks, dividend checks...
...subject, then hooks thought onto thought; joke onto dangling joke, many of them totally unrelated to the main theme, till the whole structure spins but somehow balances. All the time he is building toward a final statement, which is too much part of the whole to be called a punch line, but puts that particular theme away forever...