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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids responded with cheers and victory signs. Many tried to touch the Senator with all the abandon of a Kennedy crowd. He worked his way through the room, shaking hands and quietly thanking...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Crusade Hits Indiana, Which Is Not The Promised Land | 5/15/1968 | See Source »

...once remarked that the lean, lantern-jawed New York millionaire had held "as many important jobs as any man in our history," with the possible exception of John Quincy Adams.* At 76, Harriman is hard of hearing, but his vigor of mind and body remain unimpaired-and perhaps a touch of deafness might even help in talks that are likely to drone on for months, perhaps years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AVERELL HARRIMAN: The Toughest Test | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...strike. But many were also appalled by the hooligan tactics of the demonstrators, who had held university officials captive, broken into offices and overturned furniture. Kirk had reason to fear that some 300 members of the Majority Coalition of students, which included a large proportion of athletes, might touch off intramural violence by trying to dislodge the demonstrators. A fight did break out between some 40 of the burly "jocks," who had set up a blockade to starve out the occupants of Low Library, and 40 youths, mainly Negroes, trying to send in food. The attackers were thrown back, causing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lifting a Siege | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Reverend Starr performs the ceremony and says "I pronounce you children of the new age." Shortly after we hear it, we see a candle-light procession approaching. The bride is carrying roses. She hands them to me and I pass them inside. The demonstration peaks for me as I touch the roses--I am stoned on revolutionary zeal. The newlyweds call themselves Mr. and Mrs. Fayerweather...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...WBAI that there are bus loads of TPF (Tactical Police Force, Gestapo) at 156th and 125th and that patrol cars are arriving from all precincts with four helmeted cops per auto. I am unimpressed. So many times now we've been going to be busted. It just doesn't touch me anymore. I assume that the cops are there to keep...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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