Word: punch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic voters. The guy who patronizes women on the issue of sexual harassment. The big-city police chief who downplays his department's gang beating of an errant motorist. What don't these folks do? They don't "get it." Suddenly the phrase is everywhere, a shorthand K.O. punch that vaporizes opponents by skewering their lack of social intelligence. And for public figures it can be fatal. If you just don't get it, you're hopelessly out of touch...
...million-plus contract. Motley Crue's deal is even sweeter. Elektra Records will pay the Crue at least $35 million, including a $22.5 million advance, for its next five albums. Meanwhile, A&M Records expects big things from Soundgarden, a Seattle-based band that packs the sonic punch of early Led Zeppelin...
Epps said he thought the council's agreement to hold a "dry punch" included all punch events, not just those held in the clubhouses. He said he planned to call Douglas H. Sears '40, executive director of the inter-club council, to pursue the matter further...
Epps said the clubs' practice of serving alcohol at punch events in locations other than the clubs themselves "looks like a subterfuge...
...Club's first punch event Saturday night at the Old Customs House in Boston, no attempt was made to card students, and extremely heavy drinking was the rule...