Word: punch
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...collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week. A few yards away, a man shoving to get to the clerk in his steamy booth threw a punch before others in the crowd held him back...
Nairobi Calling It's automatic. You pick up the phone, punch a few buttons and the call goes through. Most times I bet you don't even think about the mechanics of using the phone - like driving a familiar route home from work, it's simply a habit. You certainly don't congratulate yourself on getting through when you hear a friend or colleague at the other end of the line. Why should you? Phones just work. Or at least they do in some parts of the world...
...Kenya, it's a different story. Some days, calls go through first time. Other. Days. They. Don't. You punch the buttons and nothing happens. Try again and there's a buzzing. Third time lucky, you say. But a recorded message tells you that all the circuits are full and asks you to try again later. You do. Over and over. Finally, and sometimes it can take more than 20 attempts, you hear the sweet sound of the exchange clicking through to the number you just dialed and the music of the phone ringing at the other end. There...
...were socially as well as academically privileged, however. They were admitted to the Fox final club without a formal punch process, according to Whitney Beales '68, a friend from...
...Nearby in room 629, Elizabeth D. Wilcox `01 and Jane J. Zhu `01, friends of the three guys across the hall, are trying to mix the perfect punch for the party the two rooms are throwing...