Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alert during the muggy months, and give courses which a number of Harvard students have admitted to be among the best they have ever taken. Classes five days a week can keep students and professors continually thinking about their material, and one can even find stimulating conversation amid the Punch and reclining forms in the Yard...
...mile limit, Communist guns raked Que-moy's yellow beaches, effectively preventing Nationalist transports from replenishing the island's dwindling stocks of food, ammunition and medicine. Over the horizon, almost lost in the haze covering Formosa Strait, prowled Task Force 77 of the Seventh Fleet-the Sunday punch which the U.S. was holding back as long as the Communists refrained from all-out attack...
Lomax aired his theories on England's highbrow Third Programme in one of the most popular series in BBC history (commemorated by Punch in a cartoon of a down-at-the-mouth hillbilly singing: "I've got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-around-to-record-me blues"). Now back in the U.S., Lomax would like to "turn the loudspeakers around" and convert Americans from a nation of audiophiles into folk performers. An eminently folksy sound-representing, according to Lomax, the "furthest intrusion of Negro folksong into U.S. pop music: rock 'n' roll...
Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
...came, to be entertained by panem and circenses. The panis was 600 gallons of rather watery punch, served on Wednesday afternoons in the Yard. The circus consisted of a plenthora of diversions, from concerts at Tanglewood to mixers in the Union...