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...1720s and '30s. who first used one to bring men together to mix fun and politics. "Up to the chin in beef, venison, geese, turkeys, etc.," wrote one of the guests at Walpole's stag affairs, "and generally over the chin in claret, strong beer and punch." As roads and transportation improved, being a guest became more convenient. Women joined the fun, and the weekend house party began its long and bleary-eyed journey toward today...
...weak and the disadvantaged "a faceless mass waiting for handouts"; saying programs that help blacks and Hispanics were "demeaning" and "insulting"; and declaring that "the minimum wage has caused more misery and unemployment than anything since the Great Depression." Mondale set the audience to chorusing with him the punch line "Ronald Reagan...
...confusion began a year ago when the Punch, a newspaper that is more noted for its third-page cheesecake than its investigative prowess, reported that approximately $5 billion was missing from the accounts of the government-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. In response to the charges, the newly installed Shagari government last spring appointed a five-man tribunal to investigate. The group's report, which was released two weeks ago, noted that the government's oil records were a shambles, but that there was no evidence of any missing funds...
...obstinate oldtimers were right. Stalling off Brownsville for several hours on Saturday night, Allen lost much of its punch. Once the hurricane reached land and was no longer fueled by sea moisture, it rapidly subsided. Winds in Brownsville were less than 80 m.p.h. "Now it's just a ferocious little thunderstorm," said a National Weather Service spokesman...
...Midnight The freshman mixer. Indeed. Take 1600 raw freshmen, add one rock band of questionable talent, watery punch, shake them all around in smoky Memorial Hall, and you have three and a half hours of bona fide trauma, a/k/a the mixer. lowercase. You may as well sashay your way through Mem Hall for a few minutes, just so you can have something to talk about with every Harvard student, Freshman and upperclassman alike: how bad the mixer is. Also, there will be many women from other schools, presumably bused in to offset the sex ratio. But the pursuit of drunkenness...