Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory came on a two-point conversion with 4:11 left in the game, after Brown had scored a touch-down to trail, 30-29. On the decisive play, quarterback Mark Whipple faked a dive play up the middle, rolled to his right, and flipped to Rick Villella just inside the endzone flag...
Brooke closes to an ovation that might have been standing if the crowd had the energy to make it to its feet. The emcee rushes over to shake his hand. Brooke leans back into the audience on his way out. The old women clamber around him, groping to touch the hand of a former National Senior Citizens Council "Man of the Year." By the end of the day, Brooke will have kissed over 100 women. But he is no longer the young maverick from Massachusetts. You can see it in his eyes. Ed Brooke is growing old and running scared...
...this year will be surprising," King said. "Democrats in this election have been using 1940s-and-'50s-style politicking, rhetoric reminiscent of campaigns run in Mississippi when the Ku Klux Klan was powerful They use lots of divisiveness and fear. I can only hope the electorate is more in touch with the politics of today...
...urges her to "get the electric chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle-aged black does not answer when she talks to him, then murmurs as she walks away, "Looking good, looking good." She watches State Senator Emanuel Gold playing touch football and gets bopped on the head with the ball. And from the podium at a rally, Queens Borough President Donald Manes says, "She'll make a good Congressman ... woman ... person ... whatever." Replies Ferraro: "I'll take...
...party," one punchee said. "They take you out to the North Shore and play touch football and drink, and I've never found them condescending or stuck...