Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outcome before you begin," "A counterfeit's sure to be exposed to light"-although they are dressed in brocade rather than homespun. The fables he borrowed from Aesop in La Fontaine's hands became tart and graceful satires on society, with neat plots and sharp blackout punch lines...
...considering town feeling, it is a wise one. But while the boys are perfectly happy to have their parties in the fraternities, the girls are not. College regulations forbid its girls to drink, and it is difficult to break this regulation on campus. This has led to the double punch bowl problem and 14-mile trips across the State line to freer New York...
...proper chaperones are picked for fraternity functions (women cannot be in the fraternities unless there are chaperones present), the punch bowl downstairs will be pure. The one upstairs won't. The Middlebury women have forced this. They prefer it to two separate dispensaries downstairs, one for Middlebury women, one for others. Imported dates are under no drinking restrictions...
...even fire back until Congress decided to do something about it." Massachusetts' Republican Congressman Richard Wigglesworth said that the amendment could be construed "as an invitation to further aggression in Indo-China." Said Ohio's John Vorys, the House's Republican foreign-policy leader: "Telegraphing your punch is bad, but telegraphing your enemy that you are not going to punch is worse ... I suggest that in this matter, instead of relying upon 'General' Coudert . . . this would be the time when it would be wise to rely upon General Eisenhower...
...must the particles be? Dr. Thomas, an expert on ballistics, points out that their speed when they hit the satellite would be about 46,000 ft. per sec. (31,000 m.p.h.). At this enormous, meteorlike speed, he figures, a particle only five-thousandths of an inch in diameter would punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely...