Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were at dinner and outside the clogs started howling, Peg and her pup Punch: they wouldn't stop, wouldn't quiet down. Suddenly the table heaved and things started falling off the walls onto the floor: the lights dimmed, and The March of TIME went off the air. Frightened, my mother looked at me and stuttered: "Earthquake...
...Punch, undisturbed by all these strictures...
...resolved," droned the presiding officer, "that this House will not, under any conditions, fight for its King and Country." By a slim majority of six the motion passed. Meanwhile London's historic Punch dealt in scathing verse with the famed Oxford Union whose members have twice voted, both times by overwhelming majorities, never to fight for King & Country...
...Sneered Punch at the Union...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a fight against stubby, bowlegged Adolph Heuser of Germany, in which Rosenbloom jabbed, slapped and cuffed his game opponent for 15 rounds without closing his fist for a single honest punch; in Manhattan...