Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional acts under which private persons might bring an action and collect the fine money were passed. People who went in for this were officially called common informers.* Although branded "viperous vermin" by James I's Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and dubbed "that legal cad" by Punch, the common informer prospered. His most fruitful law: the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. Actions against the promoters of Sunday wrestling matches have produced fines as high as $4,000. A woman collected $14,000 after suing the owners of a movie theater which put on a Sunday program...
...basketball games, the Bunnies laced Adams, 57 to 28, with Connie Clark pacing the winners with 12 points. The one-two punch of Stan Greene and John Canepa with 15 and 11 points respectively led the Puritans to their win over Lowell. Paul Altroechi was high man for the losers with 11 markers...
...their honor at Washington's staid Congressional Club. There the President gave each one of the 500 guests a hearty handshake and a good word, beamed approvingly as the red-coated Marine orchestra played music from South Pacific, and took a disparaging sip of the nonalcoholic fruit punch...
President Truman last week presented Congress with his long-awaited tax plan. It was a one-two punch. He wanted $10 billion in new taxes right away; a request for the remaining $6.5 billion needed to make up the estimated $16.5 billion deficit in his new budget would be along later. The President outlined his proposals in a formal message to Congress. This week Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder filled in some details in testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee. The Administration proposed: ¶A $4 billion increase in personal income taxes, adding $4 in new taxes...
...theirs. When his assignment ended, they tried to offer him a choice of profitable jobs through their underworld connections. In his garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with regrets, Punch said: "Boss, I hate to say this to you, but I'm afraid you'll always be a sucker...