Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to those who simply resell state store liquor, there are countless neighborhood retailers of moonshine liquor including beer-like "home brew" and a local concoction known variously as "white lightning" or "Joe Louis" (the name stems from the punch it packs...
...March to twelve by the end of July. Moreover, many classified as deserters in the past had simply gone home to join the army unit closest to the family-and were almost impossible to track. The U.S. command in Saigon is setting up a punch-card system for the regular Vietnamese army so that it will know where all its men are at any given time. Meanwhile, U.S. observers like to remind critics that the Union Army ran up a total of 200,000 deserters during the Civil...
...having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated as a sybaritic haven of sterilized glasses, heaped towels, ice-cube machines and coffeemakers...
...magazines have taken a special delight in kidding TIME. The Harvard Lampoon's effort last year attracted a paperback publisher, who had 150,000 copies printed. Its lead story began, "Dawn came up over the China Sea in the usual fashion last Thursday" and moved on to the punch line: "Viet Nam had disappeared...
...Psychologists at Pensacola Naval Air Station now give pilot-training candidates an aptitude test by punch keys and computer in 45 minutes, as against two days with pad and pencil...