Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrifically fast runner, but that's no good at all if you can't find the checkpoints." Indeed, a small error in compass reading can land an orienteer dozens of yards away from−and make him unable to spot−a plastic punch dangling from a tree. Each punch makes a distinctive perforation in the hiker's punch card, indicating that he reached a particular checkpoint...
...strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer seems to me to be emotionally involved, and that is not being...
...chase it with punch for polemical Ewart Guinier...
...face of awful destruction, after American planes had wiped out a North Vietnamese town thought to be an important transport center. A model operation, Wolfe calls it. What is Salisbury trying to do--sabotage the war effort? The next 20 pages drag on, like interesting patterns in punch tape, while Wolfe goes on even more enthusiastically describing how exhilarating it is to be young and a flyer, killing people you never have...
...Western alliance is ready. Warned of the enemy buildup by spy satellite photos, NATO'S divisions are at full strength and alerted. Using only conventional weapons, NATO is able to absorb much of the punch and launch selected counterattacks, thus slowing the advance sufficiently to give the alliance a chance to reinforce its divisions, to search for diplomatic solutions and-most important of all-to have time to assess when, if and how nuclear weapons should be used...