Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adopting this uppercut-with-olive-branch stance at his press conference, Lyndon Johnson once again sought to underscore his hope of ending the Viet Nam war with a one-two punch-military success leading to a settlement from a position of strength...
Academic libraries are laying plans to tie themselves together electronically so that each can benefit from the resources of the others. The medical libraries of Harvard, Yale and Columbia have been preparing punch cards for three years for such a network. Another system is Project Intercom, shared by a steadily growing number of colleges (now ten), which hope to unite their literature through computers, beginning with the medical and biological sciences. Eventually, says Intercom Executive Director Dr. James Miller of the University of Michigan, there will be a network of bookless libraries-study booths, electric typewriters and TV screens...
...carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow to hedgerow. They weren't about to give...
...here the play loses much of its punch. I, for one, thought these kids might have a lesson in reality coming to them. When Tina, convincingly acted by Susan Schwarz, talks about her three men as aspects of "a single beautiful lover" who share her "without any jealousy" I found it hard to believe. These earnest young people were so good hearted that I began to doubt them...
...abroad are reading more about the West than they did before. Yesterday's intellectual demigods were G. B. Shaw, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot; today's are Mary McCarthy and James Baldwin. Where once the coffee tables in Indian upper-class homes carried outdated copies of Punch and The Taller, they now carry fresh issues of American magazines. Indian art is selling better than ever-and although their work is often merely decorative, painters argue they are at least not bogged down in "stale experimentation...