Word: punch
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...ridicule by a gang of barely sober, snot-nosed schoolboys who don’t have half his brain or his maturity. It’s more than a little awkward to see the story of a figure as complicated and fascinating as Lentz reduced to a few punch lines about old skeletons in his closet...
Prison time now faced by Van Waiters, a substitute teacher in Miami, after he allegedly attacked a student who threw a punch at him following a verbal altercation...
...first—and the most vacuous—complaint likely to be raised against such a proposal, or any like it, is that “House spirit” would be depleted by having people switch every year, thus taking some of the punch out of activities like intramural sports and generally lowering the morale in the Houses...
...Last year they only had five cases of wine—in punch form—at the Senior Soiree, and this year we had six kegs and five cases of wine and it was the same price,” Subrahmanian wrote in an e-mail...
...predictable. With the exception of Pokriefke's mother, a harridan who dotes on her grandson, the characters are not drawn finely enough to grab the reader. But as a window into the compromises and dishonesties with which Germans have had to live for two generations, the book packs a punch...