Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sybil Smith provided most of B.U.'s scoring punch, taking two individual firsts and sharing in a relay victory as well. Smith pulled the double in the sprint freestyles, finishing on top in both the 50 and 100 freestyle races...
...five of six to assume a fourth-place tie in the WCHA with Colorado College. The Bulldogs are led by a high-scoring first line centered by Brian Johnson (12 goals, 10 assists, 22 points). Wings Skeeter Moore (10-15--25) and Sean Toomey (10-11--21) provide scoring punch...
...used to knock guys stone cold, as dead as Hector -- one punch," he reminisced. "I traveled all over the place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know...
...airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel, and ten days later the wine arrives." The Mayauxs are not alone. Today some 4.5 million French men and women are shopping, banking, reading and, yes, flirting via Minitel, the state-run experiment in computer-to-computer communications that has grown into the world's largest...
...videotape is earnestly intent on deflecting criticism of homosexuals for spreading AIDS. In the tape's one emotional scene, the brother of an AIDS victim says, "If I ever hear anyone talking about how gays are to blame for AIDS . . . I swear to God, I'm gonna punch 'em in the head!" New York City is still debating whether to accept the tape. Board of Education President Robert Wagner Jr. has criticized it for not clearly opposing adolescent sex and drug use, but he has not directly objected to its gingerliness about homosexuality and anal...