Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producer extended his routine to 10 minutes. With a $250 check in his pocket for 10 minutes of work, Youngman realized he was a sudden success. Since his time was so brief, he decided to stick to jokes that could be delivered quickly. Youngman's jokes not only had punch lines, they had punch words...
...Crimson's pregame offensive plan was to punch the ball over the B.C. fullback line, allowing the speedy Harvard forwards to catch up to the ball first and go one-on-one with the goalie. Goal number one, just 3:45 into the game, followed the plan to the letter...
...secrecy that once enveloped Hughes' vast and tangled affairs. Recalls William Rankin, a longtime Hughes employee who is now No. 2 at Summa: "Everything was secret unless we were told otherwise. We hired a p.r. agency to say, 'No comment.' " Top executives no longer have to punch a code into an elevator in the parking garage before they can enter the firm's unpretentious headquarters two miles from the Las Vegas strip. Company officers now work in fourth-floor offices rather than the windowless basement rooms that Hughes' aides occupied...
Holmes scored often throughout the early going and Ali seemed content to wiggle his hips and smile at the crowd. Ali threw one punch in the first round--a left jab that missed...
...harder punchers than Holmes--Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...