Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next came time for a bow to a revered institution: the American family. Lyndon ordered picnic tables set up in his backyard, piled them with cookies, stocked them with pitchers of pink punch, called for a press conference and in vited reporters to bring along the wife and kiddies. More than 1,000 turned up. The Marine Band played Merrily We Roll Along, Jingle Bells and America. The children drank the punch, crumbled the cookies, meditatively tore up tufts of the White House lawn and, with a certain amount of nudging from their mothers, laughed politely when Lyndon told them...
...President really said very little at the press conference, but such is his skill that he earned no fewer than five headlines on Page One of the next morning's New York Times. After the conference, he mingled with the mob, gulped down four cups of punch and perspired as though he enjoyed...
Harvard's sporadic punch has come largely from a first midfield centered by Charles (Tink) Gunnoe, one of the most colorful athletes at Harvard this spring. Gunnoe is ambidextrous, and his shot from either side is hard and straight. His stick handling is a joy to watch even if you don't know much about lacrosse. With his running mate, Peter Wood, he has provided most of the excitement for the lacrosse team this year...
Grabbing snacks in his Mercedes as he raced from smoky Stuttgart to the picturesque towns of the Swabian countryside, Socialist Leader Willy Brandt minimized partisan criticism, stressed ''common tasks of the future." Typical punch line: "For each rocket that is fired into space, there should be one against heart attacks...
...matter of survival-with very little honor. Down two games to one, then three games to two, they scrambled back twice to tie, won the deciding game 4-0 when the exhausted Red Wings simply ran out of steam. "We acted like champions," said Toronto Coach Punch Imlach, "and we played like champions." Anybody else would have been content to say that the best team finally...