Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public, at least, he was all broad smiles, and in private his congressional leaders and Cabinet members encountered an animated and attentive President. He listened to their complaints, nodded his head frequently in agreement, asked so licitously: "Are you getting enough political input? Are we keeping in close enough touch with the leadership...
...Harvard News Office to call The New York Times Magazine, to whom Kilson had submitted a revised and extended version of his Bulletin article, and inform its staff of the black students' objections. The black students had told Schmidt of their objections and he offered to put them in touch with The Times...
They also conferred with Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and coordinator of the University's affirmative action program. Leonard assured them that he was maintaining constant touch with women in the University community to ascertain their ideas regarding affirmative action...
...Dinner Party," a young architect has to resort to the most difficult assortment of social acrobatics in accepting and reading the notes his hostess keeps slipping into his pocket. Their unusual correspondence culminates in a fumbling rendezvous in a closet. Were they to make contact, however, were they to touch each other even briefly in the throes of a clandestine relationship, they would break the rules of Malamud's game of Choose-Your-Own-Island. Instead, the architect realizes that his hostess is playing an empty, self-deceptive game...
...previous role as an infighting politician. His electoral foray into New York in 1964 was a stage-managed grab for power, and even in his last campaign he never dispersed the tough-minded, practical New Frontiersmen who had always clustered around him, cautioning against excess, staging touch football games with poor kids for the television cameras and the campaign documentaries...