Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year's "wild one" saw Pat McInally and quarterback Jimmy Stoeckel rewrite a substantial portion of the Harvard record book, as they paired up on 13 pass completions for 178 yards and two touch-downs, sending Harvard to an explosive 35-32 victory...
...season, Holt has hit on 81 of 148 attempts for 1108 yards and 13 touch-downs. He is tied with Cornell quarterback Kevin Sigler for the lead in total offense in the Ivy League, with an average 183 yards per game...
...must put women in touch with their innermost aspirations and how they're going about fulfilling them," Horner said...
...machine-dominated Housing Commission. When the police rampage through a peaceful black neighborhood, beating people and wrecking stores, Kramer refuses to mount his own investigation, leaving the matter in the hands of the F.B.I. The reform mayor shrugs like an old regular--it is too hot an issue to touch. If the Police and Fire Board had held hearings, he explains, "One half of the city would have accused them of a whitewash and the other half of injuring the department...
...nose of the hound Toby, but the scent they are following is not the foul musk of creosote, that criminal excrescence from The Sign of the Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard...