Word: punched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television is having tiny people entertain you. "I think there should be openings for food and water so that it's as if you could actually feed the tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some rest stops to chat with her hand, as if it were a puppet. "You'll notice it," she says, "because I very cleverly turn to the side." The hand says, "Shut up! Tell your joke...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawyer. To build a relationship with his condemned clients, he would play chess with them by postcard, with as many as nine miniature boards of partly played games cluttering his cramped office at any given time. And Kendall once had to be restrained from throwing a punch at a burly warden who refused to allow his doomed client John Spenkelink to see a clergyman...
...sometimes many times a day. "The bulk of recent trades have been for well under 1,000 shares," says James Preissler, who follows the Internet for Paine Webber. And because there are still relatively few shares of Internet stocks available to the public, such purchases can pack a hefty punch. That guarantees that any rise in the demand for a stock will have a sharp impact on its price. For example, much of the volatility of Amazon.com comes from the fact that less than half of the company's 49 million shares are actively traded. Founder Jeff Bezos controls...
There's the pain. Years later, when Rock was 25 years old and on the stand-up circuit, he turned the experience into a punch line. "Ain't nothing more horrifying than a bunch of poor white people," Rock joked in his act. "They blame n_______ for everything... 'Space shuttle blew up! Them damn n______, that's what...
FUNNY RUSSIA Now Russians are punch-lines. The cosmonaut in Armageddon (1998; 6) provides comic relief, but he helps save the world...