Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed to a fiery slogan written on a wall: "Patria O Muerte, Venceremos" (Fatherland or death, we shall overcome). She maintained that she was living in a "fog" and a "perpetual state of terror." Then, recently, she began to experience "lucid intervals," and, wanting to get in touch with her parents, returned to San Francisco. But she was so disoriented that she had not been able to make contact with her family. The first realization that she had been living in a "fantasy world" came after her arrest when "her mother, her father and her sisters hugged and kissed...
...torture often inflicted on such prisoners, and believes that after her release Patty acted much like political prisoners who were suddenly freed. "There's an exuberant, empty grin," says Fields, "but you had a feeling that they weren't comprehending what they were doing." The euphoria may touch off giddy and impulsive behavior, such as Patty's repeated gesture, just after her capture, of raising a clenched fist. The former prisoners, says Fields, "are almost cartoons of themselves...
...opportunity. That investment has since metamorphosed Into a 49% share of Rank Xerox, a Xerox division responsible for all sales of copiers outside the Western Hemisphere and the Far East; it returned Rank profits last year alone of $129 million. After that coup, though, Davis seemed to lose his touch...
...municipalities are already finding it hard to raise money from investors. New York Mayor Abraham Beame therefore won unanimous support from his 14 colleagues on the executive committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who journeyed with him to Washington last week to plead for federal aid. With a touch of hyperbole Denver Mayor William H. McNichols told Congress's Joint Economic Committee that "every city in the nation is like a tenant in the same building." The mayors proposed two alternative plans: 1) that the Federal Government guarantee a new kind of bond issued by financially strapped cities...
...Tigers broke the contest wide open in the second quarter, notching a touch-down and two field goals. Princeton was neverheaded after that, their tenacious defense rendering the Columbia attack immobile...