Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. A day later the Kremlin announced that come November Gorbachev will visit Italy, raising the intriguing prospect of a historic meeting between the Communist Party chief and the Pope. And with a quick one-two punch, Gorbachev announced plans to reduce the Soviet military budget by 14.2%, while his Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, unveiled plans for unilateral reductions of one-fifth of the short-range nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe...
...deals with a reclusive commercial fisherman who hauls in a record-breaking specimen, a Warsaw grouper the "size of an Oldsmobile." The narrator, who owns the local marina, relates all the subsequent excitement and then warns, "Now if you don't already know, this story winds up with a punch from so far out in left field there's just no way you can see it coming, but I can't apologize for that." Nor, given the artful conclusion, should he. Stolen Kiss moves up the coastline a bit to Rehobeth, where a longtime Washington bureaucrat now works...
Throwing the first punch against husband Mike Tyson last October, Robin Givens hired Marvin Mitchelson, the dean of American divorce gurus, to handle her much publicized breakup with the world heavyweight boxing champion. But Givens soon dropped the Los Angeles attorney and signed with Raoul Felder, 54, a New York City divorce lawyer who has won handsome settlements for the former wives of Mel Brooks, Martin Scorsese and Robin Leach, among others. For Felder to take charge of the season's most ballyhooed split seemed a fitting turnaround. Mitchelson, 60, who has recently been accused of professional misconduct and even...
Negotiations appeared to collapse last Monday, when Drexel's board of directors voted against a settlement. Joseph boasted that his staff had sifted through 1.5 million Drexel documents without finding any incriminating evidence. A former lightweight boxing champion at Harvard, Joseph insisted that the best defense against a heavy punch is "to come back at your opponent smiling...
Without its usual punch, the Harvard women's hockey team edged Brown, 2-1, last night in Providence...