Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records). Raw, saw-toothed rock 'n' roll, rightly acclaimed as the best Stones album since Exile on Main Street (1972). Some Girls does not have the below-the-belt punch of Exile, despite low-down tunes and sulfurous lyrics. Keith Richards often sounds as if he is going to burn his fingers off on the guitar. Charlie Watts' drumming rolls all the way between a fondle and a mugging, and Mick Jagger sings with spirited cool. The problem may be that after all this time, the brimstone is dying...
Peking decides its "people's war "needs some Occidental punch...
...China's tanks, moreover, are copies of Soviet products that are at least a generation old and no match for the powerful new T-72s that the Russians are beginning to deploy along the tense, 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Even Peking's atomic force lacks punch. China has 80 nuclear-tipped missiles, but only two or three of them are in the 3,500-mile intercontinental-range category...
...Yard Punch: Music and refreshments. 3:00 p.m. on Memorial Church steps. Free...
...World, of course, are not uniform. The OPEC nations have become world financial powers, and a handful of once depressed countries, such as South Korea and Taiwan, are developing flourishing new industries. But the majority of LDCS have been knocked backward in the 1970s by a devastating one-two punch: oil price boosts that have raised the cost of running the most primitive factories and farm machines, and recession in the industrial world that has restricted markets for cotton, copper, cocoa, tin and other raw materials sold by less developed lands. In many countries of Asia and Africa, economic growth...