Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five years as Punch's editor in the 1950s, Malcolm Muggeridge quickened the dowdy humor magazine with pungent political satire. Circulation shot up. But when Muggeridge proposed lampooning Prince Charles's boarding school, he went too far even for Punch and was forced to quit. Nothing daunted, hardly loath and all that, he went on to ridicule the whole monarchy in a savage piece in the Saturday Evening Post. For that breach of British etiquette, he was roundly denounced, ostracized by his friends - and even banned, for a while...
...adding machines than ever before," according to Chairman Ray R. Eppert, 64, although it has long since dropped the manufacturing of typewriters and cash registers. The company has capitalized on its years of experience with such hand-operated machinery by applying it to the mechanical aspects of computer technology: punch-card processing, preliminary programming and complex operating instructions. Burroughs paces the industry in providing these essential "software" items along with the hardware -the computers themselves...
...comes up to you on the street and tugs at your coat and you swat him, everybody will say, 'You shouldn't have done that.' But if you walk on for 14 blocks and he keeps tugging, then people think you're justified to punch...
...Tough with Avis. Hertz's punch has already received a response from Avis. As written by Doyle Dane Bernbach, the latest Avis ad reads in part: "They've come out with a get-tough-with-Avis campaign. Why?" Avis suggests that it is "because No. 1's share of the rent a car business is getting smaller," cites a drop from 56% to 50% in Hertz's share of the market in 26 key places since the original Avis campaign began. Another reason is that Ally, a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean...
Yale, too, was proud as punch (Kingman Brewster felt it a "great privilege") that Vassar might be willing to scoop her classrooms and labs into her purse and scamper over the Berkshires to the sea. And it is a sacrifice on the part of Vassar. A football weekend in New Haven is all very well, but to live there. Smokestacks. Grimy water. Yale men. Everywhere. Hundreds of them...