Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jump with a Harvard record 6 ft., 9 in., will have to wait for his first varsity spring appearance to shatter the outdoor mark of 6 ft., 4 1/2 in. Senior Jack Spitzberg is the Crimson's next best, and the Pardee-Spitzberg duo gives Harvard a one-two punch no other Eastern school can match...
Five freshmen boys ran around emptying ashtrays and giving girls ("who looked like they needed it") some of the light wine and fruit punch. They carefully made off with all the pineapple that had been in the punch bowl afterward...
...enough--of the actors are equal to the energy of Restoration theater, William Tucker and Peter McManus do creditably as rogues in league, strutting like a pair of seventeenth-century clubbies through a trying punch. Their costumes sometimes get the better of their coolness and wigs and swords rattle about unhandily, but for the most part they seem in control of their roles. Sir Oliver Cockwood is played nicely by Paul Jeffreys-Powell. He and his brother Sir Joslin Jolley (Jeffrey Mahlman) roar through a series of imaginary brothels with real enthusiasm, but sometimes leave their lines hanging. Footmen, waiters...
...seconds after the first round began, Szum landed his first punch, a fearsome right hook to Cobey's left temple. Obviously stunned by the impact, Cobey could offer little resistance as Szum swarmed in with a series of clubbing rights and lefts that floored his opponent...
...shut down the city's existing dailies, the Journal and the Oregonian, thus denying the newcomer the opportunity to exploit a temporary news vacuum. Moreover, Portland readers seemed undisposed to support a union paper that tried so hard to avoid the union label that it packed as much punch as a Sunday supplement. Although the Oregonian and the Journal have together lost 79,000 in circulation since the strike, the tabloid Reporter could not even attract all those defectors. At death it had barely 58,000 in paid readership...