Word: punch
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...Harding was the heavy favorite, and the crowd went wild the few times Jones landed a punch. But by the second round, the woman who nearly brought down a president was running away from Harding, seemingly in tears. To her credit, she made it to round three, when she miserably asked for the fight to be stopped - while Harding came up and popped her anyway, in the back of the head. The crowd booed, but Tonya's probably immune to that by now, and she accepted her win with what was probably the closest to graciousness she's ever come...
...safeguard provisions that the U.S. used to justify tariffs, the E.U. could soon seal off its own steel market. Some European politicians even argue that wto rules will allow for sanctions against other U.S. products, though Lamy says he takes a dim view of a "you kick me, I punch you" response...
Moore, though, was confident that his team was going to be able to solve Danis one last time to punch its ticket to Lake Placid for the second year...
...Saturday afternoon. That raised murmur of discontent in the local Pashtun garrisons, because the reinforcements are Tajik fighters from the Pansjir Valley - longtime rivals of the Pashtun in Afghanistan?s complex tribal wars. One of the uniformed government infantrymen told Time they've been brought in to add punch to the Afghans? western assault...
...common vision of democratic government relatively unclouded by cultural and historical differences. What united the delegates in the inevitable late winter rain of Brussels is less clear. There is a general dissatisfaction with the current workings of the E.U., a feeling that the club is unable to punch its weight on the world stage, an uneasy disconnect between the E.U.'s citizens and the bloodless and byzantine machinations of its institutions. Euroskeptics - considerably underrepresented among the delegates - contend that more Europe means just more bureaucracy and less democracy. With all that on the table, the overwhelming sense that something...