Word: punched
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...needed for sports and fighting games. Rather than opting for a space-age design, Microsoft based its new Game Pad on that outback classic, the boomerang. The oddly shaped console makes it easy to dodge virtual "point guards" in N.B.A. Full Court Press, or to execute a combination punch in Mortal Kombat, thanks to a responsive controller and nine programmable buttons. When you're fighting for your life, fear not: the wisdom of ages is resting in your hands. ($44.95; Microsoft...
...retrospect, there are a number of reasons why Holyfield was able to humble the bully. He has the ability to take a punch, and as a longtime student of Tyson, he knew he could push him around and tire him out. Holyfield trained much harder than Tyson did. And he had far savvier handlers...
Harvard sustained its rediscovered offensive punch, taking a commanding 3-1 advantage in the 53rd minute when Silva and forward Tom McLaughlin assisted Kohler in a neatly-executed scoring combination...
...John F. Kennedy's gold standard of presidential superstardom, his personality has overshadowed recent politics to a degree far surpassing any of his post-Kennedy predecessors'. With his palpable need to be loved, Clinton is surely the most psychologically compelling President we have had since the dark one-two punch of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Plus, he offers us the warmth and charisma of Ronald Reagan, the vigor, shall we say, of Kennedy and, somewhere in the mix, a dollop of Jimmy Carter's sanctimoniousness. You could even say Bill Clinton is a stylistic summation of the late-20th...
Does any of this offer hope for the historical rehabilitation of the 1996 campaign? Not if the measure is drama, excitement, suspense. But suppose the two parties call off the endless Punch-and-Judy show that passes for political discourse; suppose they sit down in January and decide to grapple with entitlements, with Bob Dole playing a key role in the process (as Wendell Willkie did after 1940 in combatting America's isolationist tradition). Suppose the disclosures about campaign finances finally embarrass the two parties enough to create the climate for real reform...