Word: punch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuala Lumpur. One sunny Sunday morning, the badminton hall was filled with Malaysian smiles. The country's doubles team -- the brothers Razif and Jalani Sidek -- had just advanced to the semifinals, assuring Malaysia of its first Olympic medal ever. "What more could you ask for in life?" coach Punch Gunalan asked the air around him. One hour later, though, the country's brightest hope, Rashid Sidek (another brother) was upset in the quarterfinals by a Dane, and the hall was suddenly full of smiling Danes...
Once Sulzberger became deputy publisher in 1988, he felt for the first time "the job was mine to lose." His confidence increased, and the Lettermanesque wise-guy side of his personality receded. Reporters noticed a deeper affection growing between him and his father, "Punch" Sulzberger. One editor observed, "Arthur took on some of Punch's winning characteristics -- his self-deprecating humor, his listening rather than talking." (He did not find it humorous, however, when people tried to stick him with the obvious diminutive "Pinch.") When, just after being named publisher, he said that it gave him comfort to know that...
...inner city for further titillation. Tracy Marrow is in business for a buck, just like Time Warner. Cop Killer is an excellent joke on the white establishment, of which the company's anguished apologia ("Why can't we hear what rap is trying to tell us?") is the punch line...
...even that one-liner -- the spiraling ramp, soaring atrium and glass dome -- has been reinvigorated, allowed to have its punch line. For years the top section of the ramp was partitioned off and turned into a large closet. Now visitors can go all the way to the grand summit, and curators have been given back the best, roomiest gallery space in Wright's building...
...disturb snoozers. More important, passengers will be able to transmit high-quality computer or telefax data from their seats. Travelers carrying laptop computers need simply plug into the standard AT&T RJ-11 connector in the armrest; laptopless passengers can use the system's built-in keypad to punch out a message, displayed on the video screen, and send...