Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dead Serious. Now engineers have devised a solution that sounds like the punch line of some sort of Italian joke: rubber dams. But the sponsors of the plan-Pirelli, the famous tire company, and Furlanis, a construction firm-are dead serious about it. They propose installing hollow, expandable dams made of rubber-coated fabric across the three channels. The dams, which would measure from 1,698 ft. to 3,000 ft. in length, would lie on the seabed, held firmly in place by steel cables anchored to concrete pilings. Most of the time they would remain flat, allowing ships...
...second half was much better for Harvard as the Crimson marched 73 yards on only seven plays to punch in a quick score and narrow the margin to 24-10. Perhaps there was a chance left, after all. Well, the next two times Harvard had the ball, they stormed downfield only to be stalled, first on the one yardline and next on the 13, with fourth-down situations. Both times Stoeckel tried to hit McInally in the endzone for a score and both times he failed...
...figure-he inevitably went down to defeat. But now the invincible Rocky has gone to his reward in Washington, and his No. 2 man for 15 years, Malcolm Wilson, 60, is trying to keep the governorship for the Republicans. But if Wilson is a capable administrator, he lacks political punch with the electorate...
...miners and feared that another dark winter might be the prospect if he were returned to 10 Downing Street. Another factor was Heath's personality, or lack of it. "Even his best oratory is about as exciting as a wet evening in Wigan," wrote Editor William Davis in Punch last week. Most days during the campaign Heath looked like someone who had had trouble getting out of bed that morning...
...clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs and flutters through the title role like a madcap superball. It is difficult to believe that Massine himself was ever any better...