Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leverett triumphed over Lowell, 38 to 14, and Winthrop pounded Kirkland, 20 to 6, in the two touch football games yesterday. The Winthrop squad's victory was its third straight...
...Democratic and Republican parties. If the Democrats gain control of Congress, therefore, the Administration would have its hands tied during one of the most shaky periods of peace the world has ever seen. But the myth simply is not true. The GOP is relying on the President's Midas touch in the hope that everything he blesses will turn to votes. By tacitly lending his name to every politician who marches under the Republican banner, however, Mr. Eisenhower has picked up some rather seedy traveling companions. The last two years have shown that there is more stretch in the name...
...play is unsatisfying; it lacks the right touch and tone. Its setup calls for something cool, smooth, quietly disdainful; far too often it is given something Broadwayish and breezy-stretches in which grown-men exchange banter about sex and a scene of disheveled, morning-after, mail-order farce. There is too palpable an air of We Aim To Please about it, and of aiming to please the very far from fussy...
...oppressive summer weather dawdled into autumn, the polite plunk of tennis balls could still be heard on the grass courts of eastern country clubs, where tennis came of age. But the tall, tanned young men who had spent the summer putting the touch on tournament committees with their "amateur" expense accounts had almost all gone west and south for a season...
After freshman Al Rellie scored the first touch at five minutes in the second half on a sparkling play, Bill Simpson, grad student and assistant coach of the Jayvee football team, converted, to make the score...