Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal slugfest with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken...
...Critical Ridge. In the verbal free-for-all that inevitably followed this first darting rabbit punch, Edith more than proved her talent for infighting, and soon attracted the attention of an important matchmaker. Last December London's learned and respected lawyers' debating club, the Hardwicke Society, invited Dr. Summerskill to come and stage a few fast rounds of debate at the Inner Temple with Britain's big fight promoter Jack ("Mr. Boxing") Solomons. The proposition : "That this house wishes professional boxing to be banned...
...week's series, Meeting No. 10, was a press conference in Joe McCarthy's office, assembled as the Stevens statement hit the wires. The phone rang. A newsman took down the Stevens text and read it to McCarthy, who uttered a dirty phrase. Stevens had landed a punch with the use of the word "browbeaten." McCarthy, who usually reacts at once, lapsed into two minutes of silence. When he spoke, it was slowly and deliberately: "I've very carefully explained to the Secretary that he is the Secretary and not running the committee. He knows that Zwicker...
...this nation like some Colossus, while petty men walk about under his huge legs." Said the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "Officials who get into a slugging match with McCarthy had best be sure in advance that they have loyal seconds in their corners, a Sunday punch in both fists and the stamina to stay to the finish...
With his third line below normal strength, Weiland expects to stick with hard-playing Captain Normie Wood on the first line and Doug Manchester on the second. In an effort to give the second line greater scoring punch, the coach had moved Wood down to center it for Saturday's Yale game...