Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first weekly afternoon punch in the Yard is a special Fourth of July celebration. Wednesday from 3-5 p.m. in the Widener Quadrangle. Refreshments and music...
Princess Anne can be an absolute darling, but "she has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." Her Royal Highness was taking a drubbing from Punch, the British humor magazine, which wished she would let go with a "bit of divilment." As it is, Anne shares a chilling trait with Elizabeth: "She has her mother's look, which can freeze at 20 paces...
Said Reed, who was presented with a Most Valuable Player award that could have been divided eight ways: "In the end it was our poise that held us together." Poise with a punch. The Knicks' triumph, in fact, has given the game a renewed emphasis that is echoed in the clarion call of the rabid Knick fans: "Dee-fense!" A relatively small team, the New Yorkers intimidate not by brute force but with a clawing finesse that presses the limits of the rules. Reed handled Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, for example, with muscular simplicity: he leaned against the giant...
...Punch. His loss in the Wood, coming only a fortnight before the Derby, rekindled flagging hopes in the stables of competitors. In an eight-horse field, he lagged slightly after breaking from an outside post position, then failed to make up sufficient ground with a belated stretch drive. "He just didn't have his usual punch," Jockey Ron Turcotte said afterward. Despite the defeat, Secretariat still remains the shortest-priced early betting favorite in Derby history. Last week the odds on Secretariat were...
...Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the man who helped devise the controversial designated-hitter rule, has worked up another idea to give new punch to the old game. He wants umpires to take a cooler attitude toward the heated attacks of players and managers who dissent from a call. Free and open discussion, says Kuhn, is "the American way." Though Kuhn has not yet specified what indignities short of an uppercut should now be endured in the name of free speech, the new permissiveness might help revive the declining art of umpire baiting. Take the case of Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky...