Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airman Thach confidently expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
Blinder Than Basilio. Carmen kept punching. And the beaten little man was not the only one who had trouble seeing straight. Referee Frank Sikora watched him wade into punch after punch, yet gave him round after round. ("What else was you going to do? Body punches? Wooh! He made the fight with them, so I give it to him.") The New York Herald Tribune's Jesse Abramson, a ringside veteran, insisted that the judges who finally overruled Referee Sikora were blinder than Basilio. The punch that closed Carmen's eye, wrote Abramson, was an "incredible piece of luck...
...Robby who threw the eye-closing punch, and came closer to the basic objective of boxing: to separate the other man from his senses. A couple of times he connected so cleanly that Basilio's knees seemed almost to come unhinged. Robby looked as exhausted as his opponent when the fight ended, but the man who comes back had come back again, and he had done it with authority. "Daddy is the greatest," exulted Ray's lovely wife Edna Mae. "Nobody ever beats Daddy twice...
Even at the height of his "cantankerousness" (Graves's own word for his special quality), he writes with clarity, charm and wit. The collection includes several stories so funny that it is difficult to believe they first appeared in Punch...
Congratulations. Last fall G.E. took the knockout punch. It had brought suit against Manhattan's Masters Inc., whose 44-year-old boss, Stephen Masters, has built a $45 million-a-year discount business, selling everything at 20% to 45% off list. After G.E. won the suit against Masters in New York. Masters opened a mail-order discount business in Washington, D.C., which has no Fair Trade law. Masters offered merchandise for sale anywhere, including Fair Trade states. G.E. sued again, but when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower-court decision in favor of Masters...