Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's House intramural play, Kirkland and Winthrop are still engaged in a tight race for the tackle football championship, while the two are tied in touch football competition. FOOTBALL W L T Pts. Kirkland 4 0 1 9 Winthrop 4 1 0 8 Adams 2 1 2 6 Eliot 3 2 0 6 Leverett 2 2 1 5 Lowell 2 3 0 4 Dudley 0 4 1 1 Dunster...
...over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They roared when he accused Ike of golfing, shooting quail or otherwise being out of touch during foreign and domestic crises. And there, for the first time, the crowd booed the President's name when Stevenson referred' to him as an honorable if misguided man ("Oh, he is an honorable man, my friends"). When Adlai flew out of Los Angeles for Phoenix, Ariz, (where...
Nixon himself wanted to show his hornless head to the people of all 48 states, but G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall finally convinced him that this would be a senseless waste of energies. Instead, Nixon & Co. mapped three tours, one to touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch...
...most part, Nixon cut his own pattern of what he would say and do, but he kept in close touch with the White House and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Only twice did Washington's Republican strategists prompt him on major matters: once to suggest that he get a little rougher with Adlai Stevenson, once to urge him to drop his valid point that free-enterprise technological advances will one day lead to a four-day work week in the U.S. It was a tough point to get across, and some Administration and G.O.P. brasshats thought it sounded...
...third period was Harvard's best. It retained possession of the ball for most of the quarter, and moved for its last touchdown. It was a well-earned touch-down, with Simourian, who did most of the running, finally scoring on a plunge from...