Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but packs a much bigger punch. Even carrying ordinary explosives, one "Honest John" furnishes fire power equal to hundreds of artillery shells...
...Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that a lot has happened since Anna met the King...
...already had three helpings." By the supporting fullness of his orchestra, he also made the singers' voices sound warmer than they do in most contemporary opera. But his music slid too easily from one cool harmony to another, and on the whole, held as little punch as the libretto. When it was over, the audience gave a long round of applause that was more polite than enthusiastic...
Edith (weighing in at an estimated 150 Ibs.) came out swinging a white skull which she had just taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy
Promoter Solomons (196 Ibs.) countered with a fast one-two. "I challenge these figures," he said. "Gene Tunney was so punch-drunk that he married ?8,000,000, and Jack Dempsey proposed to a woman worth 35 millions. I wish I was as punch-drunk . . ." The decision went to Edith, but Jack came out of the ring determined to get a return match...