Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation, an exact art cultivated behind the somber oak doors of his club, reached grotesque proportions when it moved outdoors to the punch bowl, or shade tree, or Wigglesworth steps. Restraint, always a gentleman's religion, had given way to a type of familiarity which Vag thought rude and unpleasant. Grossly unpleasant...
Supreme Compliment. With such typically forthright guile and gall, 32-year-old Victor Zorza (rhymes with Georgia) has become a pundit with a punch among the experts on Communism who too often do all their legwork in the library. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, Zorza roamed the streets of Budapest to cover the fighting, brought out some of the most vivid reporting on the revolt. But Zorza can also slog through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers...
...weekly Yard punch is undoubtedly the most characteristic social function. "The Summer School drinks about 600 gallons of punch," Miss Williston estimated...
...punches take place in the Widener quadrangle from 3 to 5 every Wednesday afternoon, beginning July 2. There is no charge. "Even tourists walking through the Yard will be served," the Social Director said. In case of rain, the punch will move to the porch of Memorial Church...
Mixer-type dances will also be held three Friday evenings, July 11, 18, and 25 at the Union. George Graham's five-piece orchestra will play, and punch will be served. These dances--costing 50 cents per person--are only for summer school students and their guests...