Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center forward Chad Tubman has provided the scoring punch, getting seven goals or half the team's total. The Governor Dummer graduate (whose 21 goals set a new school record last year) is fast and has good control...
...precinct worker, he said: "You're doing a grand job." A middle-aged woman got a "You sure look good tonight, ma'am," and a toothless oldster got a "Hi, young fella." A man asked: "They treating you rough, Joe?" Replied Meek: "No, I'm just punch-drunk." When he saw a married couple departing, he said to the wife: "Won't he stay for the dance? Make the old fossil take you." The pair smiled, and kept going-and so did Joe Meek. His hopes for defeating Douglas rest largely on his leaving no Illinois...
...Reds had invited air attack last month by shelling Quemoy, the offshore Nationalist stronghold; this month the shelling died down, and Chiang held back his air punch pending the next round. In any case, the U.S. has no intention of chaining down his forces. Robertson, asked if he had discussed the "reneutralization of Formosa" or the "socalled Yalu River sanctuary," brushed them off as "a couple of catchy phrases that don't mean much." Choosing his words with care, he declared: "I will say that I know of no place in the world today where Communism can attack with...
...crisis is always acute and an emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself away to dinner"). ¶ Verbosity in Verbs: e.g., is not prepared to, is not in a position to, does not see his way to. Warns Sir Ernest: "To be told that the Minister...
...crone of a stool pigeon, is convincingly reluctant to sing for free. George Raft is the same old master of reptilian menace. The lesser cops and crooks look real enough, but Janet Leigh is too sweet and winsome as a reformed tart; Detective Robert Taylor strolls from pillow to punch, always immaculately and incredibly well-groomed, even for an overpaid...