Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lionel-Hollis gridders snatched the freshman touch football crown from the Weld Hallers Monday in a 33-25 intramural championship effort...
...freshness of his old voice. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he is merely awkward. For example, one of the best things about Auden's early poetry was the way he integrated popular speech into his own poetic voice; but that kind of success is largely a question of touch, of getting the nuance just right, and Auden doesn't seem to have been able to assimilate the characteristic phrases of the sixties as well as those of the twenties...
...President tilted toward Jackson and Kissinger adjusted to the shift. Says a participant: "All along, Henry had believed that it was not possible to handle this sort of thing with legislative language." Ford and Jackson showed him how, and he accepted the lesson. It was Kissinger who kept in touch with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and carried on the delicate negotiations for Soviet acquiescence...
...promise to get students a scholarship," says Robert Freede, head of Scholarship Search. "But we promise to put them in touch with grants they are eligible for." Last year, Freede says, two of every five applicants got financial aid ranging from $500 to $6,000. Scholarship Search-which Freede took over in 1972 when he had three children in college and was spending $20,000 annually on their education-is not doing badly itself. Freede has raised the finder's fee to $39, but he expects the number of applicants to more than double and predicts that the firm...
...each agent has power only to the extent that he reflects in some effective way his constituency. That is one thing any good politician feels in his bones. He has a sense of all those people who trust and support him and, if he is wise, he never loses touch with them...