Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learn. He spent nine days in Boston and Cambridge, talking with O'Neill's wife, children, sister, friends and aides. Early one morning he accompanied the Congressman on one of his "ethnic walks" as he stopped and chatted with the shopkeepers through whom he keeps in touch with his district. "O'Neill doesn't pull any punches," says MacNeil. "When you ask him a question, he gives you a straight answer...
TIME keeps in constant touch with the academic world. Our writers and correspondents search out scholars in many fields, seek their thoughts and enlist their help with future ideas or stories already under way. Occasionally, some of us get a chance to go beyond weekly news concerns and discuss long-range issues and new ideas with academicians and other intellectuals. In May 1971 several Time Inc. editors, writers and correspondents were the beneficiaries of a thoughtful two-day colloquy at the University of Chicago; equally provocative was a series of informal meetings in the fall of 1972 with thinkers...
Stoeckel, after languishing in the shadow of Eric Crone for his first two years with the Crimson varsity, blossomed into a bonafide standout this fall, completing 112 of 208 passes for 1391 yards and 11 touch-downs, while leading Harvard to a 7-2 finish and second place in the Ivy League...
...originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection of the surface almost makes up for the emptiness behind...
Chiang wrote that small groups of airdropped guerillas and commando raids could "surely touch off an anti-tyranny revolutionary movement on the mainland." He said that at the proper time "military actions could be launched from Taiwan supporting the anti-Communist movement...