Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 320 points, is in first place, ten points ahead of Leverett. While not winning any of the league titles, the Deacons were very consistent, not finishing below third. In tackle football, Kirkland won 4, lost 2, and tied 1, for third place, and came in second in both touch and soccer...
...Bunnies won the soccer league, but dropped to fourth place in tackle and third in touch. They are 27.5 points in front of third place Dunster...
...this point, like a wounded lion unable to kill, but still able to roar menacingly, the Bevanites answered back with a touch of the old defiance: "Trade union leaders are not a special breed of humanity, always to be shielded from the rough breezes of democracy. They . . . must run the risks of public life if they aspire to hold the prizes and the power. We shall continue to print the truth...
...course, hobbits turn out to be more like people than people. Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only at 50 is Frodo driven onto the road to trouble and adventure, by a touch of wanderlust and by the minions of the tyrannical Lord of Mordor, who are scouring hobbitland for the ring...
...Rich has captured the speech of young and old with remarkable insight. An old nurse says, "I can hardly expect you to believe this, but until I was sixteen, I had hair just like Miss Pearl's. Yellow hair right down my back, and as fine . . ." In this piece touch is the contact with external force and beauty: the downiness of a dead bird's feathers, a young girl's long blonde hair, warm sunlight...