Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Salzberg would also do it all over again, "twice, if necessary," he says, "because Uncle Sam should have cracked the whip and put these people away a long time ago." In Salzberg's case, it was the FBI that first got in touch with him nearly three years ago. A staff photographer for New York City's Spanish-language newspaper El Tiempo, he was asked if he would be interested in passing photographs of possible subversives along to the Bureau. "If we're talking about Commies, about Reds," he recalls telling an agent, "then fine...
...anything, science has made man more of a mystery to himself. For in conquering the universe, says Eiseley, man has got curiously out of touch with it: "His march is away from his origins . . . From the solitude of the wood he has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart." Once or twice he seems on the verge of promulgating an Eiseley law: The more science expands the universe, the more it shrinks...
Interceptions like that one result in special recognition from the defensive coaches. too. A defensive player who makes an interception. scores a touch-down, or makes an exceptional play receives a small silver or black football ??a touchdown) to put on his helmet...
...moments before the same stewardess had been chatting with a handsome executive in the seat in front of me. Both of them had relatives who had been in the Air Force, and they were swapping stories about how many times their fathers had been shot down. With a touch of one-ups-manship, the exec finally ended the conversation by describing how his father had been killed in the Korean War. The stewardess shook her head knowingly and looked back at me. She obviously had my number...
...right," he said, "but you'll have to place it on the floor across the threshold, because I'm not allowed to touch anything like that today...