Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never so hurried that he loses the grace of an adagio and never so relaxed that he loses the punch of an allegro. He has a gifted sense of measure but, happily, never seems to be measuring. To hear him bring out the bittersweet tonal anguish lurking in the Symphony No. 39 was to realize for once just how much romantic sentiment really filled the classical little heart of Mozart...
...Face it," says ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell. "Sport is the toy de partment of life." Tf so, Cosell is its jumping jack, punch-me clown and big bad wolf...
Genghis Cohn, a Yiddish music-hall comedian, is on his last stage. The stage is Auschwitz, and his audience is a German firing squad. But he seizes the opportunity for a last punch line. He turns his naked rump to the executioners and says: "Kush mir in tokhes!," which in Yiddish means "Kiss my ass!" Herr Captain Schatz, the man who has been placidly shooting Jews down on order, is so shaken that he accords Cohn the unusual respect of examining the corpse and ordering it clothed. Seeing an opportunity to keep his act going, Cohn's ghost slips...
...Late? Last week a top-level American Bankers Association commit tee called for an end to traditional certificates. The committee, composed of bank and stock-exchange officials, announced that by the end of 1969, it hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each...
...door and beating hell out of him? Our officers wouldn't dare," says Reddin. "They know that if they did, they'd be prosecuted, and might just wind up in the joint." Undoubtedly, there are more subtle forms of physical abuse?an elbow in the back or a punch in the kidney. But the new worry, as Reddin readily admits, is psychological brutality?the condescending look, or the tone of voice that indicates to a man that he is a suspect merely because of his color, clothes or accent...