Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition Americans have a chance to love a happy old man without looking toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Santa Claus does not worry about big spending and never has diplomatic problems. Besides all this, it's good to drink egg nog instead of gin punch, and very few people complain about your singing if you join in on carols...
...Cornell grad, I was pleased as punch to learn that my old Alma Mater outdoes Harvard in at least one thing: the teaching of modern foreign languages...
...Once again," said the trade magazine Aviation Week in an angry editorial the Soviets have beaten us needlessly to a significant technical punch." What provoked Aviation Week to such fury was its own story, not to be confirmed elsewhere, that in the last two months a 'wide variety of foreign observers" had seen the military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane...
Hustling to get away for the weekend, the honey-blonde pressagent in Atlanta hastily dashed off a few corrections on the press release for her biggest client-the new, $3,000,000 Cabana Motor Hotel scheduled to open last week. For a new punch line at the end of the story, Lois LaRoche scribbled: "What a spot for an adventurous weekend!" Then she sent the copy off to a mimeographing and mailing service. Not until she was back from her trip did she see the finished copy that had gone out to some 400 newspapers and magazines, and then...
...final touch Heineman tossed out the ticket-punching system that has become a symbol of the commuter. So many commuters were slipping past the conductor because he was too busy to punch their tickets on crowded trains that the North Western was done out of $580,000 yearly. Commuters will now carry "flash" tickets, which clip to the back of the seat, are color-coded so the conductor can tell at a glance where each rider must...