Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McClellan, where they live in the same barracks as men, some women complain of crowding. When to use cosmetics has also taken some learning. Says one woman: "I took makeup with me the first time we went on bivouac. I didn't touch it the whole time; I never took it along again...
...call him on Monday morning to talk over the glory and the agony of the previous Saturday afternoon. Wilkinson had also conducted coaching clinics with Daugherty, and he had been ABC'S expert TV commentator on college football from 1965 to 1976. He had kept in close touch with the game. One of his first moves in St. Louis was to install the basic 3-4 defense used by many pro teams. He knew it well, and for good reason: he had invented its prototype at Oklahoma...
...extraordinary qualities and experience. A newspaper in Lima, Peru, greeted Wojtyla's election with the headline LABORER POET ACTOR PRIEST POPE. That and more: quarryman and factory work-in his youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete and outdoorsman than any Pope in memory, one who loves to ski in Poland's Tatra Mountains, to kayak or canoe on the Mazurian Lakes, to climb mountains and hike...
...President wanted, will enable the U.S. to cut oil imports. Two weeks ago, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger estimated that U.S. oil imports will rise 2 million bbl. per day by 1985, to around 10 million bbl., rather than drop 2.5 million bbl., as Carter had pledged. That prospect helped touch off another orgy of dollar selling abroad...
...assembly should not take a stand on the issue of Harvard's ties to South Africa until the representatives are sure of undergraduate opinion. Rosen says the only way the assembly will gain legitimacy is through precise representation. He believes the assembly will soon be ignored if it loses touch with its constituents...