Word: punchers
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...Pripet Marshes, the puncher was Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. For weeks, he had been massing white-painted tanks, artillery, ski troops, cavalry, aircraft. Great strength, he knew, was needed, for the terrain was cruel, the roads few, the enemy defenses thick...
Delivery. In San Jose, Calif., a super-puncher punched Louis Barff on the jaw, dislocated Louis Barff...
...with his crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
Years ago Les Wolfe of Little Rock used to promote a fight now & then for a skinny young puncher from Texas named Wildcat Jenkins. Last week, sauntering along Little Rock's main street, whom should he see but the Wildcat. "H'ya Wildcat old boy," drawled Les. "Haven't seen you in years. What you doing these days?" Said Boxer Jenkins, freckled and angular as ever: "Still fighting-or haven't you heard? They call me Lew now. I'm lightweight champion of the world...
...turkey talk seemed a little nearer. Imminent was 1939's Thanksgiving I, and a striking workman is just as fond of turkey dressing as any time-card puncher. Labor Department Trouble Shooter James F. Dewey perked up, indicated the strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...