Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sorry it had to end this way," he told them. "There won't be any more speeches for you fellows." His wife Cornelia is easily his equal in repartee. She pucked back: "That's all right, George. They're all the same anyway. Everybody knows the punch line...
...three punch of changes in fashions, imports from Japan and general economic uncertainty, European manufacturers of synthetic fibers are suffering. Many of their plants are working at only 70% to 80% of capacity. At that level, the profits of older and smaller plants have been wiped out. Even such giants as Britain's Courtaulds and Imperial Chemical Industries, France's Rhone-Poulenc, Germany's Farbwerke Hoechst and Italy's Montedison have been weakened by financial fibrosis...
...watches his life punch past, conscious of the State's distortions. Through his own reflections, we have a compelling portrait of a dissenting spirit, menaced by the claims of political conformity. V. strives desparately to maintain a pose of "lucidity," haunted by the certain knowledge that "the man who directly claims to be sane is, in every case, revealed in his lunacy...
...long been far more than that. Indeed his position papers on tax reform and defense spending are the most carefully reasoned and detailed of any candidate. But McGovern's early (1963) and persistent all-out opposition to the U.S. role in Viet Nam gave him far more punch last week than the other Democratic contenders -nearly all of whom sharply assailed Nixon's re-escalation of the air war. Campaigning hard in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, McGovern drew repeated ovations as he branded the Administration's new bombings "tragic and sickening events...
Sigel said yesterday that after a long "pseudo-political argument," with Schenk, she was asked to punch out. During the argument, she said, Schenk insisted that she could not wear the badge while representing Brighams as a waitress...