Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators form part of a larger community from which the reporter cannot escape, even for a moment's journalistic sou-searching. The student reporter, try as he might to keep a cool head, often cannot: for by definition, "big news," the stories that affect the most students, will touch him or her directly. Objectivity looms as the first casualty...
...Play touch football in the Yard. If you have a TV, watch the baseball Game of the Week (NBC is Channel 4 around here). Drink beer and hang out. Meet people...
...three balloonists' wives, who waved frantically and blew kisses to their husbands. By this time, the adventurers had tossed most of their ballast overboard, including the computers that had helped them navigate and much of the elaborate radio gear that they had used to keep in close touch with monitors back on land...
...chiefly as a result of continuing government repression. By Charter 77's own account, as many as 30,000 people have been rounded up since 1969 by the police and held for varying lengths of time, often in solitary confinement and with little food. In a truly Kafkaesque touch,* the victims are even billed for the cost of their imprisonment...
Adding a post-Watergate touch, the Pope decreed that the Camerlengo and his assistants, along with two technicians using "modern equipment," must periodically sweep the entire conclave premises and all who have been admitted to them for "technical instruments of whatsoever kind for the recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." Anyone found possessing such a device was to be expelled from the conclave forthwith and subjected to "grave penalties" to be determined by the future Pope...