Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working on an assignment and out of touch with the office all afternoon, a New York Times man walked back into his city room at 5 p.m. one day last week to find the place filled with excitement and clusters of buzzing reporters. "I thought that maybe the President had been shot or that somebody had declared war on us," he said later. "But it was just that bureau thing...
Harvard found itself trailing 6-3 by the end of the first round. Squeaking to victory in two of the saber matches, the Crimson unexpectedly lost two foil bouts and dropped all of the epee. The biggest upset of the day was strongman Sam Fout's no-touch loss in the foil...
...administration was more sanguine about RGA's usefulness-until this past semester. It had felt that RGA was an effective channel for transmitting messages to the students community, for sending up trial balloons on various proposals, and, generally for keeping in touch with student opinion. Then, with the hunger strike last spring over non-Radcliffe housing rules, with the dispute over the fourth House last semester, and finally, with the Dow incident, even those close to Mrs. Bunting had to admit that she and the administration were out of touch, despite...
Diercks was actually the last to touch the puck in an off-balance recovery attempt, and the same thing happened to McCann six minutes later...
...didn't marry a Prime Minister," she said once, "I made one." That was typical of the outspoken, Brooklyn-raised nurse who played wife, secretary and mother to B-G through 51 years of revolution, rule and final retirement to a kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey-she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates-but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when he adamantly refused to talk to her except in French. "We both have trouble mit da English...