Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to the first Yard punch last year and two weeks later my picture was in Newsweek...
Along the bristling Jordan River line, Israelis thwarted a planned fedayeen commando strike by landing the "first punch. A burst of Jordanian shells fired at riverbank settlements on the eve of the anniversary drew a ferocious artillery and air bombardment riposte from the Israelis...
Harvard got more scoring punch from Lutz Hoeppner and Scott Robertson the next Saturday against Princeton to win, 4-2, setting the stage for a showdown with defending champion Brown...
...Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz in his famous aphorism. He would well appreciate what the Communists are up to on the battlefields of South Viet Nam these days. In military terms, the war is largely a standoff, with no prospect in sight that either side can deliver a knockout punch to the other. But to help out the Communists negotiating with the U.S. in Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have adopted what might be called a strategy of appearances...
...there is one punch at Cambridge mingled with this praise and encouragement. The report calls the quality of Cambridge high schools at present "unsatisfactory" and recommends that the University expand its loan program to provide money for Faculty who want to send their children to a private secondary school. The loan program, by subsidizing local private schools, could have the same effect as establishing a University school. This change, together with University building on its Shady Hill property, might concentrate a bit more of the Harvard population in Cambridge...