Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class pack more punch than anything comparable in size in the U.S. fleet. Norman Polmar, U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, estimates that the Soviets lead the world in antiship missiles, introduction of new technologies to warships and numbers of attack submarines. Last year the Russians launched their first aircraft carrier. At 45,000 tons, it is about half as large as the big U.S. carriers like the nuclear-propelled Nimitz. It will be able to bring helicopters and vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft to the scene of a battle but lacks the catapult needed to launch fixed-wing...
Assured destruction on the other hand is relatively stable. It matters little which side strikes first. The other side will have enough nuclear punch left to inflict a prohibitive level of damage...
...months of hard training. Up every day at 5:30 for a two-mile run, Frazier has concentrated on building his stamina. He intends to fight Ali the way he did three years ago: "Stay in on him, keep him moving back, don't give him the big punch." Constant forced retreat, he is sure, will exhaust Ali. As usual Frazier is not intimidated by any of Ali's verbal attacks. "Ali can rap," Joe says. "I can fight...
...UGLINESS of The Exorcist (directed by William Friedkin) is calculated for cheap thrills. It pounds at you mechanically with the punch of a tank. It soaks below the conscious level into the bloodstream and anesthetizes feeling. Senseless in its conception, emptied of anything to care about, the movie does its dirty work on the stomach and the nerves. And, down deeper, it can cast your world into a limbo of doubt...
...band of amateur astronomers were asked by a television interviewer what they thought of Kohoutek's comet. "Flop of the century!" they agreed unanimously. At a comet party near Chicago, Astronomer J. Allen Hynek explained away the weak drink that he was serving his 800 guests. "A fake punch for a fake comet," he said...