Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
...their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...
Third Day. In a stretch of dune country in north-central Sinai, at a vital road junction called Abu Aweigila, the Egyptians threw their one fierce punch. Israeli Shermans and AMXs ran into a strong battalion of Egyptian armor, veered away from it while Israeli infantry moved to the attack. Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late...
Fourth Day. When dawn broke over the tank battlefield of Abu Aweigila, the Israels discovered that in the darkness the Egyptians had pulled out what was left of their armor, to scurry to safety west of the Suez. A considerable remnant got away, but the Egyptians' one big punch had failed...
...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...