Word: punchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth II will be in Canada for 44 days, will make a one-day jaunt south of the border to Chicago, whose Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson in the 1920s threatened to punch the Queen's grandfather, George V, "in the snoot." At the trip's high point this week, President Eisenhower joins the Queen aboard Britannia to dedicate the 182-mile St. Lawrence Seaway, which links the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes with the world's deep water...
...rode a young bull's head, broncobuster fashion, in the amateur frolic). On the last night of the festival, they stepped into an alley to slug it out. "I don't want to hit you," said Harold. "Me either," said Hemingway. The hairy-chested novelist saved his punch for The Sun Also Rises...
...Strauss deliberately withheld information from the Joint Congressional Committee, thereby evading his responsibility under the Atomic Energy Act to keep the committee "fully and currently informed" about AEC matters. Anderson was openly annoyed on several occasions when Strauss released headline-making nuclear news, beating the congressional committee to the punch. But every time Anderson moved onto the offensive, Lewis Strauss, incapable of quietly accepting criticism or the hint of criticism, fought back with all his natural aggressiveness...
Yankee Invasion. U.S. investments in Old World stocks have soared since the recent currency liberalization made it easier to repatriate profits in dollars. Heavy U.S. buying in May provided the punch that lifted such stocks as the Anglo-Dutch Unilever from $143 to $153, The Netherlands' Philips' Lamps from $158 to $176, West Germany's AEG (electrical equipment) from $83 to $91. and Bayer (chemicals) from $93 to $105. One reason for particular U.S. interest in Germany: if a foreign investor holds his West German stock for more than three months, he pays no taxes, thus...
...toward a partnership. The hitch comes when he realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...