Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beecher writes work songs about mill hands who get a "shoeful of steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite) kill each other. He composes a jazzy lyric for "Kid Punch" Miller, who played trumpet with Jelly Roll Morton, and a kind of epitaph for a Pueblo Indian grave robber beset by legal problems and liquor...
...hiring targets; Columbia University's plan for the five years from 1972 to 1977, for example, called for the hiring of 81 to 101 women faculty members, of whom eleven to 14 would be given tenure. While this may make sense in the case of "typists, bricklayers or punch-press operators," Lester says, it is hardly appropriate when it comes to "choosing a medieval historian...
...former Wall Street lawyer who was schooled at Yale and the University of Chicago. He went to the Times in 1963 as general attorney, six years later was named one of the company's then half-dozen vice presidents. As top adviser to President Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger, he led the company's executives in urging publication of the Pentagon papers in 1972. With a reorganization of management last year, he was picked by Sulzberger to be one of three executive vice presidents and to handle legal, financial and other corporate affairs...
...words). Faced with a parking ticket, the calculator owner can come up with Oh hELLS BELLS. To greet a friend, you divide 98 by 7 to get hl. A greater challenge is to ask friends what a golf duffer and the movie Casablanca have in common. If you punch 2572, add 87 and multiply by 12, and then hold the machine upside down, it will spell BOGIE...
...commedia della calculator will fast become a national craze. Says James Rogers, an editor of Scientific American magazine: "I went through the stage of saying 'I don't need one of these.' But once you get one, it's sheer bliss." To achieve BLISS, punch 441304, divide...