Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Richard Nixon of California, who happened by. Next day McCarthy announced that he had slapped Pearson with his open hand and knocked him down. McCarthy's pal, Radiocaster Fulton Lewis Jr., solemnly reported that the Senator had lifted the columnist "three feet off the floor" with a solid punch delivered while rising from a sitting position. Pearson announced that the Senator had kicked him in the groin twice in a manner that no fight referee would tolerate, but didn't hurt...
Auch in Amerika opened to a packed house. At every political punch line, rhythmic rehearsed applause thundered from one section of the audience. Next day the Communist press dutifully trotted out reviews, though the chore was almost too much for Berliner Zeitung Critic Hans Ulrich Eylau, who cautiously wrote he thought the play's denouement a little hard to take. Gulped Eylau: "This is not to be a critical final judgment. It is just the result of a first encounter with a play that in spite of all its shortcomings is ... an enrichment of our scanty stock of political...
Colored by years and events, the editors who worked with him today remember FDR variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing much else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a man with "remarkable capacity for dealing genially with people...
...moving of the CRIMSON offices from rooms on Massachusetts Avenue to the basement of the Union. As Roosevelt wrote later, "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old Sanctum and also that no punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved more than groundless...
...council's conclusions: the four gangs had been started out of aggravated notions of self-protection. "The Rompers used to come around here," explained one JayBee, "and just pick on us, punch us in the mouth . . . They knifed us in the behind and everything . . . We decided to get together...