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Word: punch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today the growers are like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn't know he is past his prime," Chavez told an overflow crowd in Ames Courtroom, which showered him with three standing ovations during the program...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: Chavez Calls for National Grape Boycott | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

There are several statements in the article I would like to challenge directly. First, Mr.Cunha claims I abused my captaincy by leading my teammates into battle I find this hard to believe since I never threw a punch during the entire incident, and was attacked by John Smyth in the first place. Second, Mr.Cunha claims that DeMartha players are "booted" from the team for participation in lights. At lunch today, my teammate Pat Smyth (of DeMartha High school) assured me they was not true. Maybe a quick phone call by Mr. Cunha to pat would have cleared up this flagrantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Misrepresentation | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...swept on the road five weeks earlier left the Crimson two-and-a-half games behind liague-leading Penn (8-1 Ivy) and left the Crimson's dreams of a first-ever Ivy crown and a second-ever NCAA tournament berth all but decked by a one-two punch...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Tigers Knock Out Crimson Cagers, 52-45 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...over the course of almost three decades, a sense of continuity may emerge; but, in the cause of an evening, the place in is anything but stable. Lunatics prowl at all hours, yelling in foreign or private languages, while the less crazed sweat over the video games (Marble Madness, Punch Out, Karate Champ), make secretive phone calls, chain smoke, binge, purge, engage in brawls to which the police are summoned--or simply attempt to mind their own business...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...near-legendary by virtue of a graceful coincidence: over three years ago, Wim Wenders director of Paris, Texas, the 1984 Cannes Palm D'Or grand prize winner, had given Jarmusch the leftover film stock which was to become the 90-minute Stranger than Paradise. Since then, Jarmusch has been punch-drunk on interviews, coaxed into heralding his knew style of American filmmaking" every hour on the hour...

Author: By Susan Morris, | Title: Where's the Beach? | 2/15/1985 | See Source »

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