Word: punch
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Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
...reportedly earn more than $1 million for the fight, is the overwhelming favorite. Fight connoisseurs are calling him the boxing world's next superstar. Despite his size - he's 2 m and weighs 114 kg - the long-limbed Klitschko is surprisingly light on his feet, but packs a wicked punch. His chief competition for ring mastery ring comes from his brother Vitaly, 31, who will challenge Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champ of the World Boxing Council (the best-known of the four major boxing organizations) early next year. They are the most promising sibling pugilists since the Sullivan brothers...
...first blow against Musharraf was a long-distance punch from Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), living in exile in London. Apparently out of spite against the President, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her moderate, pro-Western views and tell her PPP to back the candidate of the alliance of Islamic parties for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman?a firebrand preacher who wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political...
...stick that he unleashed on an effigy of Yale’s mascot, Handsome Dan. The comedic show of school spirit was enough to spare him the wrath of the student section—well, that and the fact that Lewis’ cameo went largely undetected by the punch-drunk masses who had found other ways to get their buzz...
...Neither team wanted to lose the game,” Murphy said. “It was like two boxers who didn’t want to get hit by the knockout punch. You just didn’t want to screw...