Word: punchbowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to play 18 holes of golf at chilly (35°) Burning Tree. He also found time to see the usual list of visiting students and folks from back home. Welcoming citrus men, he listened with a grin while an indignant Texan complained that the Texas grapefruit in a punchbowl the visitors presented to Ike had been buried beneath fruit from Florida, California and Arizona. Said Ike, who obviously realized that there is a limit to what a man can do in one week: "Well, I'm not gonna break out crying about Texas...
...improvisation on your part. We would give you more advice on Europe except that it is so old-hat. Now, for a truly fascinating summer, we recommend Transylvania. Did some intriguing research there the last few months . . . Rhinebeck grant . . . strange tribe of marsupial women. Meet you over the punchbowl tomorrow and tell you all about...
...neglect." ¶One in nine "moderate" drinkers is certain to become an alcoholic, declared the University of Illinois' famed and controversial physiologist, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Sure signs of impending alcoholism: 1) sneaking extra drinks at a party by hanging around the punchbowl, 2) drinking with breakfast, 3) drinking alone, 4) getting angry when deprived of drink, 5) feeling a strong need for drink at certain hours, 6) drinking to ease tension, 7) steadily increasing daily liquor consumption. Dr. Ivy's remedy for those who want to drink without harmful aftereffects...
...federal service once more, entered combat in Korea a year later. The division found itself in a new, essentially defensive role. In 429 combat days, the 45th spent most of its time in counterattacks and blackface night patrols, but it saw plenty of action, too-at Baldy, the Punchbowl, and at Heartbreak Ridge. In the battlefield judgment of James Van Fleet, the 45th, "as far as combat effectiveness is concerned, is perhaps as good as any division we have...
Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines -nearly 1,000 men-was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date. Twelve big Sikorskys made a total of 162 round trips, finishing the job, without a hitch or a casualty, in 6 hr. 15 min., almost an hour ahead of schedule. The landing point was within range of enemy mortar positions, but apparently the Reds could not see what was going on; no hostile fire was received...