Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called in his onetime chief speechwriter, Emmet Hughes of FORTUNE. Working together, they ripped apart Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' preliminary draft and put together a speech with punch. Ike himself was still tooling away at it a few hours before the TV cameras were...
...ranging all the way from the need for domestic expenditures ("essential national interest and no more") to the necessity for such parts of his overseas program as foreign aid and the U.S. Information Agency ("We must wage peace aggressively . . ."). Next day at his press conference he even pulled his punch on defense by conceding that greater efforts toward unification of the services might produce savings...
...Amis and the rest of his school part company, it will be because he is its only conscientious craftsman and its only notable wit. Even so, his humor travels no better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...course, where Lee gambled with his infantry, Eisenhower has never risked one whit of prestige. Now, of course the AP reported yesterday that the President "at long last, had proved he could get down off his high horse and punch." This referred to a statement earlier in the day when he said he would henceforth distinguish between those Republican candidates he was "for" and those he was "enthusiastically...
...just thank God that I got in the punch," said the recrowned champion in the dressing room. "He got the message." He had barely showered before the promoters were guessing that an outdoor bout this summer between Robinson and Carmen Basilio, the free-swinging welterweight titleholder, would gross $1,000,000. Debonairly ignoring three Internal Revenue Service men who lurked in a nearby showerstall after attaching $23,000 of his $67,000 purse, Robinson said that he was more than ready to slug with Basilio. Said the champ: "Fighting's my business...