Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gopher enjoyed life in an appendix. For three chapters they stumbled from party to punch, from dance to debut. Pearl Harbor disrupted things; it made the parties wilder and more frequent. And then they all went into the army, all the bright young men. When they came back, some, like Gopher Marsh, had high resolves which vanished quickly, in an alcoholic solvent. Most returned happily to entertain the same old friends and same old ideas. A few, like Gus Taylor, escaped to reality...
...Henry lit his candle at both ends and rushed off to singe the fashionable moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...
...diminutive Ecuadoran, thrice intercollegiate champ while at the University of Miami, is best known for his two-fisted forehand. Like Kid Gavilan's "bolo punch," the weapon is crowd pleasing but not necessarily any more effective than the orthodox technique...
...flashy player. Cleary with his smooth style has nevertheless managed to accumulate 28 points in six games. His skating, stickhandling, ice sense, and scoring put them at least notch above the average freshman player. Yet it is his outstanding passing that largely accounts for the first line's scoring punch...
With so much depth on hand the second and third lines are practically interchangeable. Second time center Winkie Childs has developed his scoring punch and is now the best varsity prospect be low the starting team...