Word: punched
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Though the Wednesday- and Thursday-night polls did not show the speech doing any major damage with Iowa's conservative caucus voters, Dole aides are still worried. Unless something changes, Dole may not be able to punch through the 30% ceiling in the farm state, which would make it awfully hard to declare victory there. Moreover, if Forbes or Gramm comes close to 20%, or if both do, commentators could yet call this a two- or three-man race heading into New Hampshire. "Thirty is now the goal," said a top Dole official. "If the others pack around...
...with the budget fight. But he has been steadfast in defense of the wife who has stuck by him through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from many of the same sources...
...President reportedly wants to punch columnist William Safire for impugning his wife's integrity over Whitewater and the travel office firings. Press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters today that, after reading Safire's Monday column, which called the first lady "a congenital liar," Clinton was so steamed, that "if he were not the president, would have delivered a more forceful response to that on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
FRIENDS CLONES ARE PILING UP like drifts this season. Viewers of such shows as Caroline in the City and Partners have been inundated by a flurry of awful blind dates, a blizzard of mistaken sexual identities, a foot and a half to two feet of jokes ending with the punch line "Anna Nicole Smith." And yet, to the credit of these comedies, rarely--if ever--do they pause for a would-be-poignant, piano-accompanied contemplation of the world's social ills. It may not be inventive, but we can rest assured there will never be a very special Single...
...menorah" consisted of a three-hole punch. Because last night was the second night of Hannukah, Sigelman said she put candles into the three holes and lit them...