Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ISSUE of economic restraints was saved for the last few pages of the Dunlop Committee report, and one sensed that they were saving the big punch for the finale. One senses too that members of the Committee are anxious to get through recommendations on benefits, recruitment techniques, research fellows, housing and schooling, and start the Faculty talking about how to determine priorities for growth. Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History and one of the seven on the Committee, suggested at the meeting Tuesday that the Faculty is no longer able to make abstract decisions on academic policy...
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
Andover never recovered from the 1-2 scoring punch delivered by the Crimson late in the first period. The prep team suffered its one-goal lead first to be tied, and then outdone, by Harvard in the short space of 15 seconds...
...punch gave Harvard an invincible aura, the third goal, just a minute into the second period iced the game. The third score was powerhouse Charlie Thomas' second goal of the afternoon, this time unassisted, "After that, they must have decided we were in another league because they seemed to let down a lot," Getchell said...
...down with excitement." In a precise, hinged-jaw imitation of the Vice President, Frye exclaims: "When I wake up in the morning, I say 'Whoopee!' When I go to bed at night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats' any more. But I could never turn my back on Lyndon Johnson. A year ago, we exchanged...