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Word: punches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funniest when he is lancing overstuffed politicians, some of his most memorable cartoons are as bit ter as his memories of Nazi persecution. Under a moving sketch of hollow-eyed Hungarian children and sorrowing old women, Vicky (whose parents were Hungarians) last month used as his punch line a quote from Soviet-controlled Radio Budapest: "Fascist and reactionary elements have been crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mocksman of the Mirror | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...past fights, and, with canny Manager Cus D'Amato. planning his battle, round by round. Still, the smart money rode with the veteran. It was Moore. Moore, Moore, as squat, cold-eyed men talked around their smoldering cigars about the old man's wile, experience and mulelike punch. Only a last-minute showing of "Eastern" money drove the odds down where they deserved to be: Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Youngest Ever | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...with Justice Department last January (TIME, Feb. 6). After decades of rental-only policy, IBM will sell accounting and tabulating machines, either old or new, that are installed up to July 25, 1958; from then on, only new machines will be sold. Sample prices: $1,950 for a card punch v. $40 monthly rental; $1,700,000 for 700 series electronic brain v. $30,000 monthly rental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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