Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning at 9:30, Miss Frances opens her school with a song ("I'm your school bell! Sing dong ding . . ."), and then class begins. Sometimes it is about modeling clay, sometimes talking about buses or fruits. Miss Frances goes in heavily for demonstration: "Little children love to touch things. But no one takes the trouble to teach them language for what they discover. We try to give them some feeling for shapes. They like to be able to say something is rough or smooth, oblong or narrow...
...made a consecutive run of 2,000. At 18 he won his first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds his twelfth world three-cushion bilHard title (TIME, March 17). Along Willie's ivory-clicking way, he won 39 other world championships, and set exhibition records that may never be equaled (e.g., an 18.1 balkline run of 622; 25 points...
...touch football Dudley came from behind to top Kirkland 18 to 12, and Leverett tied Lowell...
...soccer Leverett beat Dudley 1 to 0 and Kirkland topped Adams 2 to 0. Dunster's touch football team conquered Winthrop...
Tomorrow's games pit Winthrop against Dunster in both touch and tackle football, and Kirkland against Adams in soccer...