Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batters had trouble with Oeler be cause they were swinging for the distance, instead of trying to punch his pitches, as Cleary did with one out in the ninth for the second varsity...
...behavior--talking in meetings without addressing the President--and too much eloquence were offenses which occasioned fines ranging from $.06 to $.25. Despite these curbs the young gentlemen managed to have a good time at every rehearsal, perhaps because they ended every meeting with wine or the mysterious Pierian Punch, still served at present meetings...
With this bit of elegiac poesy, Punch last week began five pages of sardonic advice to its readers on "Britain's New Role: Learning To Be a 2nd Class Power." Instead of sighing for the golden days of Empire, Punch urged that Britons look to the wonderful possibilities of the future "once it has been established that Britain is operating in the second division...
...really first-rate citizens of a second-class power, Britons, says Punch, must throw off centuries-old habits and 1) "master the art of boasting," 2) practice "indifference to the welfare of birds and animals," while "almost everybody must use the rank of colonel or count, to make both the Army and the Aristocracy look ridiculous...
...Christ had been put on television to preach the Sermon on the Mount," says British Writer (and former Punch Editor) Malcolm Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached...