Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinings halls should be, and naturally will be, the center of the non-resident's relation to the House. If the money which would be spent on an independent facility went into the dining halls, there is no reason why they should be overcrowded, and if a punch-ticket for, say, three meals a week were provided to replace the inconvenient coupon books, commuters would be encouraged to become part of the House through the dining halls...
...Sundae Punch. In Ocean Ridge, Fla., told to get a permit or stop vending on the Boynton Inlet docks, Ice Cream Peddler C. R. Wilson threw a left jab, broke the police chief's nose in four places...
...Dead Men." Last month in the New Statesman, onetime Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge fired even more wildly. Said Muggeridge, under the title "Dead Men Leading": "Probably no powerful country in history has had quite so dead a government as the U.S. has today. It is not just a matter of the infirmities of its two principal figures-President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Apart from the decrepitude of the one and the fatal illness of the other, the government itself is scarcely operative...
...Leafs' late blooming was enough to make Torontonians take a respectful second look at the power of positive thinking. Power of any kind was what the dormant, doormat Leafs conspicuously lacked when George ("Punch") Imlach, 42, took over as general manager at midseason. A former minor-league coach and player, Imlach installed himself as coach, exuded a sunshiny, nonstop optimism, never stopped insisting that the Leafs' only trouble was that everyone (including the players) thought they were...
...course of an hour between lunch at the Riesmans' and punch with the populace in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, Tynan ranged, on request, all over the theatrical map. Discussing playwrights unjustly neglected on the commercial stage, he nominated Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button...