Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the rise of computer punch-card accounting and the decline of the clerk's pen-entry ledger, company comptrollers have relaxed in a new atmosphere of mechanical morality. They have been confident that neither false entry nor ink eradicator could juggle the electronic accounts. But last week, Walston & Co., one of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms, found that the computer is no more honest than the hand that feeds it. In eight years, Walston Vice President and Computer Specialist Frank B. Haderer, 50, had stolen more than $260,000 from the electronic till, to become...
...stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...Administration argues that an ICBM gap of 2 to 1 in 1963, or even 3 to 1, will not mean a "deterrent gap." In 1963, explains Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, the U.S. will not be relying solely or even mainly on ICBMs for its main deterrent power. The big punch will still be the H-bombs in the bays of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers. Backing up SAC's bombers will be a growing force of missiles, but SAC alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried...
...rising chest-high at the rock face. Grimly, nine foremen ordered the rescue teams out for fear they, too, might be trapped if the water-weakened shaft walls collapsed. Now the only hope was a special high-speed drill rushed down from the northern Transvaal 300 miles away to punch a 13-in. air and food hole straight down from the surface to the entombed men. But the drill hit solid rock 80 feet down, slowing the job. And as torrential rains began to fall, threatening new cave-ins, no one but the desperate families outside held out much hope...
...clear that Britain's Sir Anthony Eden intended to break this familiar pattern by offering his readers a cautionary tale dominated by "the bad guy." With only six installments in print, Britain's onetime Tory Prime Minister was already cocking his arm for a Sunday punch at the late John Foster Dulles-the man Eden considers largely responsible for the 1956 Suez crisis, which brought Eden's long political career to a calamitous...