Word: punch
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Tuesday night saw the women’s basketball team top rival Dartmouth 70-67 in a thriller. For the Big Green, a chance to lock up the Ivy title and punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament was on the line. For the Crimson, this was its last chance to grab a share of the Ivy title—win or stay home...
...around of Quincy Dining Hall will have a chance to see this well-windowed space this Saturday night in a mode quite different from its traditional tray-crammed status: the dining hall will become a runway, and the bright colors of General Gao’s chicken and Hawaiian punch will be replaced by an equally-splendid tapestry of student and professional design. Contradictions: A Charity Fashion Show will benefit Spheres of Exchange, the Boston branch of the non-profit Refugee Women’s Network, a group that “serves refugee and immigrant women through leadership training...
...this one, convened by the support group Dads in Distress, happen almost every day across Australia and New Zealand. The raison d'?tre of many of the countries' several hundred men's organizations is a conviction that the system crushes men after their marriages fall apart; that a two-punch combination of vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted...
...describe a career of under three years) raspy and understated style. The distorted guitar in “Evening on the Ground” and the slick bass line of “Freedom Hangs Like Heaven” lend these songs a simply bad-ass vibe. Packing a punch and a twang, these songs may cause dancing, foot tapping and other reactions not normally associated with the band’s previous efforts...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...