Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toward the end, even McGovern seemed to know where matters stood. The smile could still be summoned; the handshake could be made to seem firm and confident. But his face was haggard and furrowed, his voice hoarse. He threatened to punch a Cincinnati heckler in the nose, whispered to an especially annoying Nixonite in Battle Creek, Mich., "Kiss my ass." Huffed the astonished youth: "He said a profanity...
Crimson coach Bill McCurdy says that Princeton hadn't quite the one-two punch to compare with Penn's Childs and Fikes, but in Ron Vander Kraats and Bill Good, "they come pretty close...
Penn may well burn Harvard's defense where its most vulnerable--on kick coverage Bellizeare and Steve Solow are perhaps the best one two punch kick return team in the League...
...live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility, and more sense of accomplishment...
Mailer relies at least as much on his legs as he does on his punch. He attends the arrivals of the candidates; he noses around the caucus meetings for color or the lack of it. There are even a few side trips. Like a true politician, Mailer does not miss the opportunity to continue his attack on Women's Liberation. Like a celebrity chaser, he goes to the White House to interview Henry Kissinger, who easily wraps Mailer round his finger. But mostly Mailer does what Mailer does best: tossing out metaphors, similes and off-cuff vignettes -usually making...