Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson did quite a bit of moving around before coming to rest at 14 Plympton Street in 1915. Its original home was Stoughton 22, a room which was convenient at least to Yard dwellers, well stocked with punch for the convivial Crimeds, and, if a surviving photograph is to be trusted, comfortable. One editor of the period reminisced about the social life of the room in a letter to the editors of the Fiftieth Anniversary book...
...studded room, the greater part of which is taken up by the huge editorial table, and the cumbersome stove, are gathered about a dozen men, lolling in the window-seats, seated upon the paper-box or around the table. On the table is a large bowl of mild punch, a bottle or so of Bass's Ale (for the men in training) and a can of crackers. Near each man is a glass filled with his chosen drink, and scattered about at convenient intervals are piles of crackers. Smoke from pipes, cigars, and cigarettes curls gracefully from the lips...
...Yeah, but that Foreman guy has a punch like a Bobby Orr slapper. He can really pack one in there! I don't know, if he gets one right on, it's all over...
...censured the gimmick ("They found it distasteful," Driesell says with distaste), but one of the prospects, Jim O'Brien, currently the team's second highest scorer, found it "pretty original" and signed with Maryland. Driesell's second season with the Terrapins began with another bang-a punch in the mouth administered by a 240-lb. South Carolina player during a full-court brawl. Driesell loudly criticized South Carolina Coach Frank McGuire for "standing idly by and grinning." McGuire just grinned some more, claiming that the game films showed that Lefty had inadvertently punched himself. "Are you kiddin...
...Delhi, many Indians look to New York rather than London as the exciting city to visit, or for study or work. They are more impressed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology than they are by the London School of Economics, they read The New Yorker instead of Punch, and collect original recordings of Broadway musicals...