Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keith Hefner (brother), a rather frightening looking man (see picture) who turned out to be a sheep in wolf's clothing. Hefner smiled a lot and laughed a little and begged the unsuccessful aspirants not to get upset. "If I have to tell you to leave, please don't punch me or kick me or cry," he pleaded...
...Watched. Wilson's replacements added a youthful and vigorous left-right punch to his team. As Transport Minister, he appointed the redhaired, vivacious firebrand of the party's left wing, Barbara Castle, 54, who has been in Wilson's Ministry of Overseas Development. The most important shift involved the new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins. At 45, he is the youngest member of Wilson's Cabinet -and a man to be watched...
When the far-flown volunteers were asked to punch a telegraph key on seeing a light flash, their reaction times were almost twice as long as at home. Internal body temperature took at least four days to shift to the new day-night cycle. Heart rate and water loss through perspiration took still longer...
Coach Cooney Weiland has shaken up his young but quickly maturing team once again in his effort to conjure up the scoring punch that has waned since the nine-goal output against Bowdoin two weeks...
...PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked...