Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor threw open the doors of City Hall and Cantabrigians gathered inside yesterday to sip punch and munch Danish pastry, all to mark the birthday of General George Washington...
...Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines were watered with tears when the new kid in town tried to be serious before 300 friends. "Today," he concluded tearfully, "I am the proudest Jew in the world...
During the center's open house, Harry Hollis, 64, a retired carpenter, chatted at the punch bowl with Jim Miller, 48. Hollis, the day before, had held in his hands a strip of eleven color photographs taken of the inside of his stomach. Miller had recently spent a day patched to a portable EKG machine. Doc Rose's calendar showed an appendectomy first thing in the morning. It no longer seemed to matter how long it had been since his last haircut...
...loss to Columbia, the Crimson again missed the offensive punch of sophomore swingman Don Fleming, the team's leading scorer, who managed only six points. Twelve team turnovers with a little over a quarter of play elapsed didn't help, either...
...punch of Green Monsters Gail Koziara and Amy Nelson under the boards simply overwhelmed a Harvard squad that has triumphed in only two of its ten encounters. Koziara, an all-Ivy sophomore center, netted a game-high 26 points while leading all rebounders with 20. She glided at will through the lane, leaving Crimson center Elaine Holpuch for most of the evening...