Word: punching
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...potent anti-infective properties yet lacking the tendency of many organic agents to generate resistance. Trouble is, silver atoms have to be in an ionic (charged) state--as they are in solutions of silver salts--to kill microbes. Pure silver doesn't release enough ions to pack much disinfecting punch. Its salts, on the other hand, wash away too easily...
...Midwest Saturday night gathering during the mid-'60s. The men, all in one room, swap curse-filled insults and pornographic playing cards, while the women trade techniques for keeping the men in check ("I just throw a wet towel over it..."). Tyler likes to end her stories with a punch line, so the final panel depicts the guys the following morning as members of the "St. Rede Holy Name Society," handing out church bulletins...
...said her work examines relationships between history and memory, text and image, old and new, two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. “Input,” a 2004 installation at Ohio University in her hometown of Athens, Ohio, consists of a set of computer punch-card style rectangles arranged within a 3.5-acre park. Words and phrases are engraved on each rectangle, a multidirectional poem of sorts composed by Lin and her brother, Tan.The piece’s unconventional form fits its content. “Memory is non-narrative and non-linear,” Lin said...
...much to change the sources of our frustration. Rather than cross barriers themselves, they invited people of other races to make that leap—to punch their clubs, comp their publications, join their teams. Of course, none of this did anything to remedy the imbalance...
...risk that violence, avoided in Phoenix, could break out. "The Minutemen are getting stronger precisely because Bush and Congress are addressing immigration," says Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the Manhattan Institute in New York City. The question is, Can Washington reach a solution before somebody throws a punch--or worse...