Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balanced budget by fiscal 1981 is one of Carter's main goals over the next four years. Hamilton Jordan, who was emerging as de facto chief of staff of the White House, supplied the political rationale: "If we balance the budget [by then], politically no one can touch Jimmy Carter...
...historic passenger in a stable fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...
While Papa nursed hopes of eventually sharing in Lacoste's inheritance, Euphemie had to endure her husband's passes at the maids and, worse still, the touch of his festering body. The consequence was arsenic in the soup. It remains open to question whether Euphemie put it there (she was acquitted) because Lacoste often dosed himself with the arsenical compounds then prescribed for venereal disease. Still, Lacoste's death smacks sufficiently of retributive justice to meet the criteria for classic murder...
...Journey of the Wolf manages to outlast the errors and inexperience of its author. Although his touch is unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
Carrying a body-length lead over UMass's Mary Ellen Butler for 18 of the 20 laps, Beckman used all her stamina to out-touch Butler for the important second-place finish by just 15 seconds...