Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...
...announced that the bomb shelters in the cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch of a single atomic artillery shell. (Its energy equivalent: 15,000 tons of TNT as compared to 20,000 tons at Nagasaki.) In an actual attack, if an A-bomb exploded higher than 300 feet above ground, its radiation would penetrate cellar shelters with more ease...
Conductor Chardon, a onetime associate conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, under Dimitri Mitropoulos, now has a fully professional ensemble for his three-month season. Orlando, the only U.S. city under 100,000 to support such an expensive orchestra, is pleased as punch with his results. It hopes to double its budget soon, and confidently expects that, before too long, its orchestra will rank among the best dozen...
...HABEN, Conn. March 14--Yale's basketball team had two much bright and scoring Punch as it defeated Harvard 83 to 69 in an always rough and often dirty game at Payne Whitney Gym, here tonight...
...Washington a citizens' commission headed by RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff let fly last week with a roundhouse punch at the U.S. military establishment. In a report to Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, the Sarnoff Commission (formal title: the Citizens Advisory Commission on Manpower Utilization in the Armed Services) recommended "an overall reduction of at least 10% in men, money and matériel . . . in the operations of the Department of Defense." Such a cut, said the commission, "can be achieved . . . without diminishing the required combat effectiveness of our armed forces," and "would mean possible savings...