Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost half its strength; another said that the North Korean army was "practically nonexistent." A Chinese corps of 30,000 men was observed moving eastward to back up the mangled Korean Reds. ¶ General Van Fleet appeared to be hitting the enemy with a sort of one-two punch. While his western-front offensive suddenly tapered off, a new drive involving three allied divisions (one U.S., two South Korean) was launched at Kumsong, the Reds' main supply and assembly base on the central front. ¶The Reds proved that they had not been bludgeoned into inertia. In the west...
...popular reaction to further delay. However, Pérez Jiménez (the junta's Strong Man) is determined to become President, so the elections will have to be in his favor. And there is always a good chance that an A.D. revolution will beat him to the punch...
...Giants never gave up, pushed across two runs in the ninth, had the tying run on second. But with no DiMaggio to give them the scoring punch, the Giants could not quite make it. Rightfielder Bauer, with a skidding, diving catch, came up with the ball for the final...
...sketches the line U.S. humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become a part of the language. The Album proves that, when told right, there is no such thing...
...long trip (to Oregon to live with an uncle) and met his first traveler's disappointment. "The Rocky Mountains," he noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your other cheek once, but if he smites it, then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping a British mining firm claw gold...