Word: punching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real story was Clemens' record-setting mound performance. His punch-out of Phil Bradley in the ninth inning gave him 20 for the game, eclipsing by one the former nine-inning record held by a number of pitchers...
...military raid. Says Livingstone: "It is far more humane to get the legitimate bad guy than his baby daughter and innocent civilians." But it seems the Administration simply wanted to have it both ways. That is, it wanted to send a message to terrorists in general and a knockout punch to one in particular...
This year was worse than most: informed of their lottery numbers several days before they were required to submit their housing bids, the freshman class engaged in a frezy of second-guessing in an effort to extract the maximum punch from their given number. Fake housing surveys were conducted by yardlings posing, variously, as members of The Crimson, the Independent, the Housing Office, the Freshman Dean's Office, and, amazingly, the Statistics Department. The whole thing need never have happened...
...fact, Garlits has just such a computer already. He puts on a squeaky little computer voice: "It says, 'What is the observed altitude?' So I have an altimeter, right? I punch in the observed altitude. It says, 'What is the observed temperature in Fahrenheit?' I punch it all in, and the screen goes blank and thinks about it. It pops up then and says, 'The adjusted altitude is 1,800 ft.' " Garlits sets his fuel-air mixture accordingly. The computer knows things he can only guess...
...SURPRISINGLY, Meese's attack on the courts represents one punch in the administration's two fisted attack on civil liberties and broad guarantees of rights. In an article in The New York Times, Justice Department public relations man Terry Eastland unintentionally elucidated the real intentions of Meese and the Reagan Administration...