Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three practice sessions a day have included one-touch and walk-through scrimmages to "get the players to think ahead." Ford has emphasized defensive skills and is working on getting the players to create and to recognize man advantage situations in various areas of the field, one of the weaknesses last season...
...active delegates felt the convention had already gone far enough by itself, and should wait to let the duly elected Student Assembly decide the future of student government at Harvard. They were afraid the convention might incense students by appearing to be a body that was out of touch with the rest of the students. The group that wanted to wait prevailed. As a result, those steering the convention have washed their hands, to a large extent, of the responsibility of student government reform. This has left a tremendous vacuum. No one knows exactly what is going on, and everyone...
Your cover story was concise and excellent. Your concluding words, "The touch of the divine, bringing tantalizing possibilities, may once again make foolish the wisdom of the world," were literary gems in a meaningful summary. Man will always be involved in the affairs of God, but room must always be left for God to be involved in the affairs...
...journalist," Albino Luciani once told an interviewer. Throughout his lifetime the new Pope has been a man of words, written and spoken, in sermons and interviews, in dozens of articles and several books. The samples below reveal a man with profound conservative instincts but a light touch and a sense of humor. They also show that, despite a parochial career, John Paul I has wide cultural interests...
Meany and his allies have followed parochial policies that turn off potential labor supporters. The AFL-CIO's dead-end support of the Viet Nam War is the standard example, but there are others. The union movement has lost touch with many rising forces in U.S. society. Feminists and civil rights leaders worry that seniority rules hinder the promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination...