Word: punch
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...filled with jokes, repeated jokes, diversionary jokes, and they worked about two-thirds of the time. Although Fitzwilliam’s jokes flew much more often than Steve’s did, a given joke’s success or failure did not necessarily depend on who delivered the punch line...
Against the one-two punch of two of Boston College’s (BC) aces, the Harvard baseball team could get little done offensively, as it fell 6-3 to the Eagles in an afternoon game yesterday at O’Donnell Field. Junior Terry Doyle and senior Ted Ratliff shut down the Crimson (10-12, 5-3 Ivy) with excellent breaking balls and solid fastballs, allowing just six hits on the day—all to the top four hitters in the Harvard lineup. “I was really surprised to see Doyle and Ratliff with the weekend...
...second act, the action occasionally swerved into overdrive. Look left and you see Dickie (Alexander D. Rafael ’07-’08) spiking the punch. Right: Candy (Harrington) twirling a flower. Center: Diedre and Rebecca competing for male attention. The acting was superb, but there was no central point of action. I found myself sitting at the edge of my seat, twirling my head like a dreidel in attempt to catch every little bit of action—and, in the process, missing the overall scene...
...easy to get the sense these days that you've stumbled into a party where the punch is spiked with some powerful drug that dramatically alters identity. The faces are familiar, but the words coming out of them aren't. Something has happened to a lot of people you used to think you knew. They've changed into something like their own opposite...
...um…drier, less salty, saltines. Great Jewish athletes throughout the generations have known that even though we are remembering an exodus, the show must go on. Take for example the doubles duo of Harvard tennis co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin. This one-two punch delivers some extra ‘umph’ during Passover thanks to matza. “It’s really funny to go to pre-meal dinners with the team,” Valkin said. “Everyone’s carbo-loading, and Scott and I are eating...