Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Punches & Bows. Take Lima, and me, if you please. I came back to Peru twelve years ago after 26 years abroad (I was a kid when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease...
...second Chinese push was lighter than the first. Instead of the two-pronged offensive which they used the last time, they tried to ram through U.N. lines at one point; U.N. officers in Korea speculated that the Chinese might try to follow through with a series of such one-punch attacks. No one in Korea doubted that the Chinese would try again. But the basic situation-Chinese hurling masses of manpower against relentless U.N. firepower-would not change, unless the Reds decide to commit their air force...
Gavilan went after Bratton with a will, but never with a knockout punch. Shifty-footed Johnny Bratton crowded right back, but the sting in his right seemed to have been dulled. For the next six rounds it was a boxer's fight, a brilliant display of punch and counter without knockdowns or clinches. After that, it was all Gavilan. The judges' decision, while hordes of Gavilan's rabid rooters crashed through police barriers into the ring, with Cuban flags flying: unanimous for Gavilan...
...kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 votes when Heflin ran for reelection...
Crimson coach Bob Pickett has been experimenting with different attack combinations to improve the Yardlings' scoring punch. At Dartmouth Saturday midfielder Tod Goodwin combined with Ed Curtis and Captain Monk Aiello to flip in a total of eight goals. Goodwin will start with the first midfield, although he may also play at attack later...