Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice Holmes was a colorful man, and his writings had a granite power to them. "The Magnificent Yankee" is a string of anecdotes straining for the color. The punch lines of these anecdotes are generally pretty trite ("In any battle ... fight like hell.") This life of Holmes centers mostly on his paternal attitude towards the "bright young Harvard scamps" who were his secretaries, and on his walks through various parks in the spring. It misses the flavor of both Holmes the man and Holmes the jurist...
...dues and fees of an ignorant rank & file. In the movie's best performance, Actor Cochran, bullying and toadying by turn, creates a picture of an ugly, slack-witted Klansman. Storm Warning hits hard at these characters. By knowing when to feint as well as when to punch, the picture loses no excitement, gains a chance to make its message connect where it will do the most good...
...light tank" (TIME, Jan. 15). Designed as a highly maneuverable patrol and reconnaissance vehicle, it has a speed of better than 40 m.p.h., an air-cooled engine with an automatic torque converter transmission, is maneuvered by a simple control stick. Its high-velocity 76-mm. gun packs a lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially...
Soon the racket began to snowball. Loyal young Democrats flocked in to see their politician pals, went away with notes assuring them of a spot on the Annex's roster of 3,000 temporary workers. All they had to do was punch in at 5:30 p.m., while away the evening hours and return to punch out again at 2 a.m. If anyone squawked, the whispered threat of a politician's name would...
Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...