Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional leader. To Case's right-wing enemies, Martin was as close to a conservative "Mr. Republican" as anybody since Bob Taft. He carried the same message to the politicians who chewed cigars in the back seat of his campaign limousine and to the ladies who sipped pink punch while he spoke from the rose-wreathed platform of the Hackensack Women's Club. Said Martin: it would ill serve Republicans of any stripe to turn Dwight Eisenhower over to a hostile Democratic Congress...
...There is no need for legality, since Ohmi Mills are built on honorable kindness," cried the owner of Ohmi Mills, fat, feudalistic old Kakuji Natsukawa. He could not understand what his girls were striking about (TIME, July 5). Promises of honorable kindness-no time clocks to punch, free schooling, dormitories, libraries-had lured thousands of young girls off farms to work at $10 a month, and built his silk mills into Japan's sixth largest textile company. But honorable kindness, also meant that officials penned them up in their dormitories, opened their mail, blocked romance, forced them to attend...
Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
...PUNCH-CARD TAX forms are being readied by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for some 35 million U.S. income taxpayers who make less than $5,000 and can use short-form 1040A. The tax card will call for only the taxpayer's name, address, social-security number, dependents and income. It will then be cross-checked mechanically with employers' withholding records, thus enable agents to quickly spot errors or evasions...
...Parbat the German, Annapurna the French. (In the '305, Americans joined in on K2. reached 26,000 feet in 1938, 27,000 in 1939, 25,800 in 1953.) Professor Ardito Desio had climbed with the Duke of Spoleto. The professor is a mild-mannered little man with a Punch-andJudy nose and a mountaineer's reputation of being "stubborn as sin." Last spring Desio organized another Italian expedition, with eleven mountaineers, five scientists and a Pakistani army colonel...