Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without either the attorneys or the courtroom audience realizing that they had witnessed the reception by the Supreme Court of an historic document: Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress recommending a reorganization of the judicial branch of the Government-an oil-smooth state paper that packed terrific political punch...
...Punch in the document, however, was not equal to the punch in Franklin Roosevelt's voice as he read his message to a press conference an hour before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...Yellow Cruise" is the acme of the travelogue. This pictorial account of the third Citroen-Haardt-Audouin-Dubreuil Asiatic Expedition is not content to edify with its splendid scenes of the exotic, but succeeds in giving to the collection a unity and a thrilling dramatic punch, involving both terror and beauty...
...strange thing had marked the Pastor-Louis fight. It was a weird tribute. Had any other pair of fighters circled the ring for 55 seconds without letting fly a punch, boos, programs and perhaps chairs would have rained over the ropes. Such was the respect for the sudden death in Louis' left fist, such the sympathy for Pastor, outweighed 203 Ib. to 179 and regarded as a rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake...
...Cabinet's more conciliatory policy (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931 et seq.}, the spunky Military have successfully taken the offensive against Japan's civilian government. A renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan's politicians...