Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxer Langlois, who was a substitute for Joey Giardello (who had a knee injury), was game but overmatched. In the sixth round, Olson opened a cut over Langlois' left eye. In the eleventh, another Olson punch knocked the dressing off and left the cut looking like a blackish mussel shell, gaping in the middle. After a conference with the ring doctor, the referee awarded the fight to Olson on a technical knockout. Television viewers, who could not plainly see the cut or the blood and wondered why the bout was halted in the middle of a round, felt cheated...
...Survival. Until recent years, the U.S. had hardly any air defense. On the sound military theory that offense is the best defense, the U.S. entrusted its safety to the Strategic Air Command under General Curtis LeMay. The theory was, and is, that SAC's poised heavy-bomber punch would either deter the Communists from attacking, or destroy Communist production centers if they did. Now, for the first time, the Reds may have strength enough to knock out SAC bases with a surprise blow. The U.S., unable to retaliate, would be doomed to destruction or surrender...
...Such a force could pack this kind of a great offensive punch. It could include aircrafts able to deliver large weapons under all weather conditions, against enemy bases 1,500 miles or more distant . . . Operating with such carrier forces will be advanced forces of nuclear-powered submarines launching atomic missiles against targets at relatively short ranges . . . These forces would be fully self-sustaining for some 30 days of war operations...
...serves is to set up the musical and production numbers. This is does admirably, only to be crossed by Henry Ziegler's lyrics and Michael Lay's music. Ziegler starts each song with real promise: the words are crisp and the rhymes ingenious; then, just where he needs a punch line on each verse, he rests on his creative oars. The result is insipid lyrics, more annoying because they could shine through to redeem the book...
...Spirit of St. Louis, his brilliant, present-tense narrative of his 1927 transatlantic flight), put on his Air Force uniform (his first time out of mufti since before World War II) to become an active brigadier general. Long an exponent of a harder, faster U.S. military punch, Lindbergh will make a secret survey of the Air Force's super-secret guided-missile program...