Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the laws of the realm and remain faithful to the principles that guide the National Movement" (the country's sole legal political party). There was speculation that as one of his first official acts, King Juan Carlos may posthumously ennoble his predecessor. It would be an ironic touch of regal glory for the Galician paymaster's son, who had held more power in his lifetime than the new King might ever know...
...that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles-Anderson College, where a boy may not sit on a piano bench next to a girl, or touch...
...power. Hilton's arm needs neither. Its controls are directly connected to the nerves in the stump of his severed arm. The power pack is inside the prosthesis. Unlike most other artificial arms and hands, it is also equipped with feedback devices that give him a sense of touch...
Sweet Piety. The three Gorkys form a triptych of commentary upon each other observed at different ages. Without being didactic, Tesich manages to touch on several things worth thinking about. He says that survival is mandatory and compromise may be its price. Only the living can change a society, never the dead. He indicates, very subtly, that perhaps Russian society can never be changed, even by revolution, since tyranny is the only tradition the Russians know, have, and trust for getting things done...
...members of Harvard's Government Department could manipulate a football as well as they do rhetoric, they would not have suffered an 18-0 defeat at the hands of Yale's Political Science department at their 2nd annual touch football game Saturday...