Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO's General Lauris Norstad temperately pointed out the dangers to the West of military disengagement in Central Europe, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror...
...excellent performer in the crease. Reminiscent of last year's star, Dave Bohn, he is very adept at receiving passes in front of the opponent's goal and shoving the ball past the goalie. With attackman Grady Watts, great at breaking through the defense, Lentz has a valuable scoring punch...
...public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch line everyone knows, and thus she is a clean, nay immaculate, dirty joke...
...know Columbus Ave. was one-way when he entered it, but realized when he saw lights coming toward him rather than from behind. Barber said, about the liquor charge, that throughout the evening he had had only two small cups of Bourbon punch at a Yearbook party and a total of four beers at the Palace Bar and the 411 Lounge in Boston...