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Word: punching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxaphone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...difficult to find a blank space on the Summer School's social calendar. If there isn't a dance, there is a Yard punch. Or a music hour. Or a square dance. Or a Tanglewood excursion...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Summer Scholar's Life: Quite a Happy One; Concerts and Lunches, Dances and Punches | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Portrait With a Punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...fashioned notion that the British have no sense of humor is amply disproved by Punch's May 7 spoof of Merton's painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places, dears. From the top, daddy-O, and punch it like there's no tomorrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bring 'Em Back Alive | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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