Word: punch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the six twin-engine F-15s provided a protective umbrella, the specially armed F-16s screamed into their bombing runs. The lead plane fired a pair of video-guided precision "smart" bombs, to punch through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through the jagged holes: a dozen conventional bombs weighing 2,200 Ibs. each. After a series of shattering roars, the roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy...
...Just ask NBC's Tom Brokaw ("Duncan the Wonderhorse") or the people at ABC News ("Rooney Tunes"). Says ABC News President Roone Arledge: "He loves to make catchy little phrases that are belittling." Adds CBS News President Bill Leonard: "He uses the English language like a sword to punch holes in whatever he feels like punching holes...
...stage. In brushing away the encrustations of age and restoring the original to us. Epstein and Leib have unearthed no new themes; they have instead uncovered a wealth of satiric ornamentation, the angry undergrowth of the author's mind, that either was cut for the opera or lost its punch in Italian...
...tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original way of derailing conventional narratives with a compact, satiric prose and ripe perceptions. "I feel you're feeling anger," says the host to his enraged wife. It is one of Michaels' many punch lines in this small marvel of modern comic irony...
...characters tend to get lost in the shuffle. Why Sellon then insists in the second act that each couple have a denouement duet is incomprehensible unless it was just for the sake of tying up the many loose ends. By doing so he simply deprives the show of its punch and brevity...