Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxing fans remember Joe Louis as a relentless stalker with dynamite in his punch, who held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship for eleven years, defended it successfully 25 times. Two years ago, at 34, Joe made his final title defense against cautious Jersey Joe Walcott. He won by a knockout in eleven sluggish rounds while ringsiders shook their heads. Joe was slow and flabby; his bald spot was showing. Joe hung up his gloves...
...Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps (and the rest of Patton's Third Army) was held in England until the beachhead was soundly secured.* Eisenhower had held the Third Army back for the U.S. forces' Sunday punch...
Finally, he delivered his punch line: if the Utes agreed to the terms he had worked out, the U.S. court of claims would award them between $31 million and $32 million-bigger judgments than the court has ever awarded against the Government. He paused, faced his audience with a look of pardonable expectancy. Not an Indian flickered an eyelid. An interpreter repeated the statement. Dead silence still reigned...
...permitted U.S. withdrawals when things got too hot; it also meant that the Reds were not causing as much destruction as the Germans did in the blitzkrieg phase of World War II. North Korean military weaknesses might be exploited when (and if) the U.S. buildup accumulated a real counteroffensive punch...
...little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys as he went to church...