Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fischer, who has had five years of experience with computers as a vice president of Mid-Continent Screw Products, finally realized that he would have to deal with the machine on its own terms. Using a computer available to his company, he dispatched punch cards to the traffic violations bureau. Said the civilian computer to its official cousin: "Apparently the letters sent to the humans who try to control you are being disregarded. The violation is not valid. I suggest you instruct them to erase the ticket from your memory bank. I hope you can make them understand...
...bureau's computer could appreciate that kind of talk-and so could the machine's human programmers. One year after the correspondence had begun, Fischer received punch cards in return and fed them into his machine. "Dear Human," read the printout, "at last I have found somebody who understands my language." The computer explained that it had been given the wrong license number by one of its human operators. The charge was dismissed, and the computer added cheerfully: "If you're ever in the neighborhood, come up and see me some time...
...even then Yale was increasingly unable to put together any kind of effective, scoring punch, although Harvard played shorthanded on nine separate occasions throughout the game...
...autobiography is excruciating when he recalls going to dances in the 1930s, learning to sip punch and stand around as if he did not want to dance. The devastating need of blacks to restore pride in their color and race still flames forth in Malcolm X's comment on the tragic folly of doting black parents who favored whichever child in the family was the palest. When, at age 14, Malcolm was told-like many other gifted blacks-that he should think of carpentry instead of law, he turned his back on the whole white world...
Crimson coach Cooney Welland, concerned about his squad's frustrating inability to mount a ?? offensive punch and its frequent ?? at defense ?? just a day before making the Hanover trip, and the results were ????able...