Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes back to 1909. That was the year, at least, when an inventive sophomore named Fred Harris (class of 1911) first urged the formation of a ski-and-snowshoe club to organize social activities, the better to avoid going bonkers from cabin fever and the absence of the feminine touch...
...upstairs, diffidence rather than debauchery seems rampant. In the darkened Alpha Delta TV room, for instance, a girl with piled-up blond hair seems absorbed in the 11 o'clock news. A frat brother approaches her. "If I don't see the news I feel out of touch," she explains, rather breathlessly. "But if you want to change it to Saturday Night Live, it's O.K. with me." He does, and they sit together watching. In quiet darkness, or boozy haze, most of the conversation seems as timeless and fraudulent as ever. "You got a date...
...other nations too, Bill asserted, "we can at least get in touch with some of the people that might be running the country" in the future, rather than "chaining ourselves to leaders who are going down the pipe." But Oil Expert Walter Levy wondered if the U.S. should instead do its best to prop up the present leaders, trying to buy time. Levy readily admitted that this approach collapsed in Iran. Call it shortsighted, he said, but supporting the status quo "may give us another five or ten years in Saudi Arabia...
Bill: What's wrong with getting people that speak Arabic, Persian, and Turkish and Urdu out there in the boondocks getting in touch with religious leaders...
Then, in February, Vastola turned strategy into victory against Princeton's Richard Pantel, a 1978 second team All-American. He noticed that Pantel had been gathering touches on counter-attacks made as he, Vastola, prepared his own attack. Using a "second intention attack," that is, by pretending to prepare to lunge then waiting for Pantel to commit himself, Vastola collected the crucial fifth touch...