Word: touch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the pressure on, Harvard's breastroker, Carl Cummins, false started once, losing precious energy. Cummins started slowly. Behind by a body length halfway through the race, Cummins' hopes looked dim. But a tremendous burst of speed at the end pushed him out in front to touch out Army's Jeff Burke. Harvard was hanging by its fingernails, still behind...
...Michaels' direction shows an especially sure touch for farcical slapstick business, nice details of external characterization, and the blocking of any largish group. He shows less command when he has a small, intimate scene at hand, but when he errs, he does so in the direction of emphasizing frenetic movement, which has a special comic advantage over the static set-ups so familiar to Harvard stages...
...thought that the faculties and facilities of the graduate schools might finally be available to undergraduate students, if only for a few years. While the administrators may be fearful, surely the professors must welcome the opportunity to come out of their stuffy libraries and labs and get in touch with the most challenging and questing generation of undergraduate students we have ever had. It could be a mutually rewarding experience...
...deliver his nationally televised "Checkers" speech to keep from being dumped as Ike's running mate because he had accepted $18,000 in private contributions for political expenses. Funds from the Percy Group are strictly earmarked for business-as they were for Nixon. Percy himself cannot touch the money and has no need or desire...
...some medieval ordeal, is progressively more difficult. If an escapee manages merely to get near this highly guarded obstacle course, which varies with the terrain, he comes up almost immediately against two 5-ft.-high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee may also stumble over wires rigged to trigger flares...