Word: punching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens who donated to the cause described how North and others would give a strong pep talk about the needs of the contras and then leave it to private fund raisers like Carl Channell to ask directly for donations. Republican Senator Warren Rudman described it as a "one-two punch." According to William O'Boyle, a New York City oil investor who testified last week, he was told by North that as a Government employee he could not directly ask for donations. But Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewing- company executive, testified that in January 1986 North did personally...
...lift-off was recorded on a photographic plate; the bulb of a mounted bellows camera was put into the hand of a North Carolina surfman, who was told when to squeeze. His timing was perfect, but Wilbur was too excited to punch his stopwatch and had to estimate the duration of the event. Ten years later, a curtly precise Orville described what had happened during those unofficial 12 sec.: "a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed...
...begins with a father luring his toddler son into a pool with the promise of catching him, and then allowing the boy to sink or swim. The name of this story is Trust Me, a title that then echoes brightly through the rest of the book like the sardonic punch line of a locker-room joke...
Number one: William Shatner. My first and perhaps greatest triumph. I was clever enough to intercept the legendary Captain kirk at my local Toys "R" Us, guided only by the posters and newspaper ads announcing his arrival. Unfortunately, a few thousand other reporters managed to beat me to the punch...
...this snarled web of deception unwinds throughout the course of the movie, lots of exciting stuff happens. Buildings blow up--usually in slow motion. Guys punch each other out, with blows that make that great ping-pong-paddle-on-naugahyde noise. Lots of low-life Texans, criminals, Mexicans and innocent bystanders get shot. Half the time characters fire upon people they've already killed just to make sure the corpses don't spring to life in Day Of The Dead-fashion. And gradually, the audience gets the point of this film and begins to laugh out loud...