Word: punche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time. The world of the early 1950s was still a little punch-drunk from World War II, which had ended less than a decade before. Everything was changing. Great old powers were falling, virile new ones were rising, and the huge, poor mass of Asia and Africa was stirring into self-awareness. Hillary and Tenzing went to the Himalayas under the auspices...
...emphasized that point; Harvard prides itself on being a leader," Hennefeld says. "Other schools were beating Harvard to the punch, so we expected movement pretty soon...
...team did play surprisingly well against some of the best teams in the league, but the inconsistency of its youthful roster and a lack of scoring punch left it on the slack side of the ledger...
...some senior activities were losing their punch--literally...
...studied computers a lot under [former Lowell House Master and Professor of Computer Science] Bill Bossert, but unfortunately I was about two or three years younger than Bill Gates, and we were still using Fortran and punch cards...