Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting and the University of Maryland have beaten everyone to the punch: this week they are quietly launching the nation's first national degree-granting TV college, with ten public television systems and seven collaborating colleges across the nation: California State University-Dominguez Hills, lona College, Linfield College, the universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Southern Vermont University...
...1720s and '30s. who first used one to bring men together to mix fun and politics. "Up to the chin in beef, venison, geese, turkeys, etc.," wrote one of the guests at Walpole's stag affairs, "and generally over the chin in claret, strong beer and punch." As roads and transportation improved, being a guest became more convenient. Women joined the fun, and the weekend house party began its long and bleary-eyed journey toward today...
...weak and the disadvantaged "a faceless mass waiting for handouts"; saying programs that help blacks and Hispanics were "demeaning" and "insulting"; and declaring that "the minimum wage has caused more misery and unemployment than anything since the Great Depression." Mondale set the audience to chorusing with him the punch line "Ronald Reagan...
...confusion began a year ago when the Punch, a newspaper that is more noted for its third-page cheesecake than its investigative prowess, reported that approximately $5 billion was missing from the accounts of the government-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. In response to the charges, the newly installed Shagari government last spring appointed a five-man tribunal to investigate. The group's report, which was released two weeks ago, noted that the government's oil records were a shambles, but that there was no evidence of any missing funds...
...obstinate oldtimers were right. Stalling off Brownsville for several hours on Saturday night, Allen lost much of its punch. Once the hurricane reached land and was no longer fueled by sea moisture, it rapidly subsided. Winds in Brownsville were less than 80 m.p.h. "Now it's just a ferocious little thunderstorm," said a National Weather Service spokesman...