Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times past when such men of skill and punch as Joe Cans, Benny Leonard and Tony Canzoneri wore the crown, the lightweight championship of the world meant something in boxing. Even as recently as two years ago, Lightweight Champion Ike Williams was respected for his shifty style, if not for his fighting heart. But when Williams lost his title last year to a Harlem unknown named Jimmy Carter, lightweight prestige slumped. Last week Champion Carter, 28 and still a colorless jabber, put his low-rated title on the line for the third time...
...superior boxing skill clearly outclassed the work of the bumbling, brawling little Mexican. Carter jabbed, poked and stabbed almost at will, while Salas shuffled around the ring, gloves drawn cocoon-like over his face. Every once in a while Salas burst out in a flurry of short-armed punches. For ten rounds it was a monotonous repetition of the first bout. Then, stung by a Carter punch, Salas began to fight...
...shown that most fatal tank hits are on the hull, Chrysler has cast the T-48's hull in a single piece for added strength. It is designed with sloping sides to deflect enemy shells. The T-48's high-velocity 90-mm. gun has more punch than the 90-mm. mounted on some U.S. World War II tanks, and the gunner can swing on target with a new deadeye range finder...
High-frequency TV waves have long been considered undependable at more than line-of-sight distances, i.e., from transmitter to horizon. They punch through the ionosphere (ionized layers in the atmosphere which reflect lower-frequency radio waves), and so are lost in space instead of curving conveniently around the bulge of the earth. Once in a while a TV picture is received strongly at a great distance, but such events are freaks which cannot be counted upon...
...long arm of the law came to Harvard Square last night swinging its billy club, swimming it hard and to the head and not pulling its punch. It was police-state law, the enraged and petty law of men who know something is wrong and don't know what to do about it, the frustrated law of men who are laughed at and can only reply with a quick crack at your skull...