Word: punching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that race, supporters of then-State Rep.Saundra Graham and challenger Alvin E. Thompsonangrily accused each other of a sabotaging thecity's punch-card voting machines, and Grahamsupporters called for a recount...
Princeton began (9-5 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) the bruising last Saturday when it defeated the Crimson, 2-1, in overtime for Harvard's first league loss of the season. The Tigers them finished it off Saturday with the old one-two punch--denying Harvard (10-5-0 overall, 4-2-0 Ivy League) both its anticipated revenge and a rematch against Ivy champ Brown, which had defeated Ursinius in the earlier semifinal game...
...season, Coach Nita Lamborghini gave her lemon a fuel injection. She recruited reliable center back Erin O'Brien to shore up her porous defense. Explosive forwards Sharon Landau and Cutone were brought in to add scoring punch to a lackluster offense. And three-sport superstar Char Joslin was an instant hit, nabbing All-Ivy honors her first season...
...other search and concordance functions make the machine far more valuable. Want to find every place in the Bible where "taxes" appears? Just punch in the word and sit back. The computer displays all the books where the exact word is found, and a simple added command then brings each text to the screen. Taxes turn up but once in the King James, in Daniel 11: 20. A handy extension of this feature can also search for all variant forms, such as taxed or taxation (there are eight...
From the start, scientists had a firm answer to the question uppermost in every Californian's mind: the earthquake that hit San Francisco last week was not the long-feared Big One. While it packed a punch, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale,* the 1906 earthquake was 25 times as strong, at 8.3. Warns Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey: "The question is not whether a bigger earthquake is coming. The question is when...