Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hadn't been here," says Editor Broyles, a onetime writer for the British weekly Economist. He may well be right. Texas Monthly has boldly attacked Dallas banking institutions, Houston law firms, airport safety and that most sacred of cows, college football. Texas Monthly has lacked originality and punch in its graphics, but it has become an articulate voice for the rising urban consciousness in the third most populous state in the Union...
Heavily favored Evonne Goolagong combined a potent serving punch with an artistic display of cross-court passing shots to easily advance past Carrie Meyer 6-2, 6-1, in the second round of the Virginia Slims Tennis Tournament at Boston University last night...
...stood by a wall, sipped on some punch, and feeling very alien indeed, observed my contemporaries at play. Eventually, thankfully, I was rescued by the arrival of JF, our eleventh congressional district coordinator. We quickly retreated to an empty living room and hunkered down to basics, a discussion of how we were really doing (great) and about infighting taking place at the high command (Byzantine...
Trainor, who teamed with Hughes to form a potent inside-outside punch for 1974 Massachusetts state champion Catholic Memorial, notes that "the Garden was always packed during high school and it's the same tonight. That's a great incentive for anyone...
...that denouement, LaZebnik has contrived a few good songs and some priceless comic sequences. Unfortunately, though, his creative abandon is undisciplined by a critical eye; and, as a result, the wheat of LeZebnik's on-the-mark parodies remains mixed with the chaff of puns and punch lines that fall pitifully flat...