Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British perspective on the monarchy today, TIME asked the views of one of that institution's most seasoned, if skeptical observers, whose notable career as a journalist, author and television pundit has been punctuated by stints in government service and as editor of Punch...
...eleventh-hour legislation delayed adjournment of the Arizona legislature in 1974, one committee chairman was furious at what he considered O'Connor's failure to finish up the senate's business. Said he to O'Connor: "If you were a man, I'd punch you in the mouth." Snapped the lady right back: "If you were a man, you could...
...step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along with her husband, is a popular partygiver and -goer. While the prosperous Phoenix lawyer regales guests with Irish jokes told in a brogue, she jumps in to lift stories along, without ever stepping on the punch lines...
...basic skills. But how real is the progress? Bearing such nicknames and acronyms as CAT, ITBS, CTBS and METRO,* a bewildering battery of tests annually churns out statistics in "percentiles," "grade levels" or "stanines" (a scoring system based on nine that occupies only a single column on a computer punch card). Quite often, these obscure as much as they reveal. A month after New York school officials had boasted about the big jump in average test scores, parents of more than a fifth of the city's seventh-graders learned that their children would be held back a grade...
...ninth round, Leonard mounted his attack, and a five-punch combination (along with a little help from a confused referee) gave Sugar Ray his second professional title...