Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemonade Lucy" was the sobriquet applied to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, member of the W.C.T.U., for refusing to serve liquor at White House affairs. Will Mrs. Nixon be dubbed "Punch-Bowl Pat" for serving church-social punch...
...Montreal. There, students protesting alleged racism on the part of a young white biology teacher climaxed a 13-day occupation of the school's computer center by turning it into a shambles. They started a major fire in the building, littered the street with a blizzard of blank punch cards, and, like latter-day Luddites, demolished the two computers with axes. Riot police broke through barricades and arrested 97 people, but not before the rioters had done more than $2,000,000 of damage, twice the previous record for destruction of property, which was set only last month...
...Nosal and Charlie Ajootian provided a solid one-two punch in the weight toss as Nosal copped first-place honors by three inches with a heave...
Instead, the newly-formed line of George McManama at center and Bobby Bauer and Ron Mark on the wings provided the scoring punch with its four goals and five assists...
...middle-income Manhattan executive, say, who is invited to attend the weekday-evening vernissage of his favorite nephew, an artist. He thinks he is entering the charmed circle of bohemia. He finds himself in a small up stairs room where dozens of people exactly like himself are sipping watery punch and gabbling uneasily. His only consolation is that the room is so crowded that he can't see the pictures...