Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launching platforms can roam the world's oceans at will, difficult to detect and destroy, ready to deliver their lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Yard Punch...
...Subtle Punch. The wagon missed no side roads. In Hubert Humphrey's Minnesota, Kennedy men were working for an endorsement from Governor Orville Freeman and from Humphrey himself. Only a short time after erstwhile Candidate Humphrey told a group of delegates that "in fact, as I have listened to Kennedy speak, I don't see how I even had a chance," a Kennedy newsletter turned up in Minnesota with a picture of Hubert and Jack, captioned with the same quotation...
...sent his family Convair to Detroit, picked up ten prominent Negroes, airlifted them to a conference at Kennedy's Georgetown home in Washington. It was, as one of the Negroes reported later, a "real red-carpet" welcome. "We had brunch on the patio, and there was a subtle punch beforehand-I thought there was gin in there, but I heard it was cognac. There was chicken and some fancy kind of eggs, and there were whites and Negroes waiting on us. Afterward, that man must have given away $100 worth of cigars from some foreign country. Mrs. Kennedy...
Stable Stance. Florio began with Patterson's stance. In his much-and justly-criticized peekaboo defense, with his feet squared and his gloves held high about his head as though clutching a toothache, Patterson had no foundation for absorbing a punch, much less for launching one. Florio got Patterson to revert to the classic, stable stance, with the left foot in front, the right foot in back. To increase Patterson's ability to take a punch Florio strengthened his neck with special exercises that expanded his collar size from 16½ to 17. A diet of steak, lamb...