Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing in recent memory has quite so disturbed and transfixed the U.S. press as the street battles during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Mayor Daley and reporters have turned the confrontation into a sort of Punch and Judy morality show, and last week they were still pummeling away...
...planes operating more flights in anticipation of that happy future, the number of empty seats is growing at an alarming rate. In addition, the industry has been bedeviled by spiraling expenses, which increased by 21.2% last year and are up almost as much more in 1968. The one-two punch has battered the profits of some of the biggest carriers. United has suffered an earnings decline this year of 49.2%, Continental Airlines of 62.5%, Eastern of 63.3%. Even worse off is Trans World Airlines, which lost $1.78 million during the year's first half, compared with a profit...
...always had a healthy wariness of athletes," says TIME'S Detroit Correspondent Joseph Kane. "Perhaps it's their size, but I'm always afraid that a question about their shortcomings will bring a punch in the nose...
...when the action demands the kind of force that he always delivers as an actor, Newman pulls his punch lines. A half hippie, half religious revival meeting, for example, should have had the kick of LSD. Instead it dissipates and meanders between love and Haight-Ashbury. Moreover, Scenarist Stewart Stern often gets too close to the novel, adopting where he should adapt. Rachel is shackled with prosy monologues that should have been given visual form...
...expect to hop in a car and go off without knowing how to drive. But put a man in a power boat and he becomes the instant mariner. He requires neither operator's license nor the barest acquaintance with navigation or mechanics. All he has to do is punch the starter button and take off, trusting to God and the U.S. Coast Guard...