Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference, announced it to the British as a highly pleasant surprise. The U.S. will not become a full member of the pact (as the British would like even better), but will take part in its planning for defense against Communist armed aggression, thereby strengthening both the pact's punch and its prestige.*¶ The U.S., under an agreement reached at the conference, will supply Britain with guided missiles, thereby filling a serious gap in British defenses and balancing military-manpower cutbacks dictated...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, cleaning up their social obligations for the season, played host at a reception for some 1,000 Government officials and Congressmen. Milling through the East Room and the State Dining Room, the guests munched cookies, sipped lemon-and-raspberry spikeless punch, took note of the resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife...
...combination had some ambitious ideas, among them a scheme to take over the operation of Portland punch-boards for a profit of at least $100,000 a year. Part of the plan, said Elkins, called for Clyde Crosby, the Teamsters' Oregon representative, to persuade the Portland city council to legalize the possession of punchboards. Also, the Teamsters' label of approval would be placed on all the punchboards owned by an Elkins henchman-and places using other punchboards would be picketed by the Teamsters so as to cut off their "beer and bread" deliveries...
...AFTER DINNER OPERA COMPANY is the freshest of half a dozen small opera groups and workshops (including the lighthearted Punch Opera, the experimental Opera '57 and the ambitious Amato Opera Theater, which changes its standard opera bill every three weeks). The company-headed by Stage Director Richard Flusser, 29-was launched with a capital of $250 in 1949, lost $2.68 the first season but has been making modest profits ever since. Flusser has more than tripled the original $65-a-week salaries of the six young members of the troupe. After Dinner has been successful because it staged sprightly...