Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most important, the Communists will have to share responsibility for tough measures aimed at dealing with the problems of big deficits, broad unemployment (1.7 million) and high inflation (at 14%, Europe's worst) that helped touch off the crisis. After Andreotti becomes Premier for the fourth time this week, he plans to cut spending, increase tariffs, curb wage hikes and channel more funds to private investors through loans and tax incentives in order to spur industrial development. He will also try to close a projected $10 billion budget gap by reducing such benefits as medical care and pensions...
...nature at all to be on the defensive, whether against Nasser or anybody else. However long, our estrangement would end when he rang me up and asked where I had been all those days and why I hadn't got in touch. I usually answered that I thought he had been too busy and so didn't wish to take him away from his engagements, whereupon we would meet and carry on again as though nothing had happened...
...expressed itself in strain. His paintings are all about unstable energy, and in this too he was a most "American" artist. No matter how firmly Davis insisted on their abstract basis, all his images feed back into the world: he never seems to have doubted his subject or lost touch with it, so that his best works are triumphs of candor. - Robert Hughes
...take backhand lessons from Goolagong, as she battled back from the deficit, and the match went to a nine-point tiebreaker at 6-6. With the tiebreaker even at four-all, Goolagong reached back and rifled one of her finest serves to the corner that Kruger couldn't touch...
Epeeman Robert Kaplan had perhaps the best day of any Crimson fencer, as his 5-7 performance included an enthralling come-from-behind, one-touch victory over the epee national champion, New York University's Leonid Drvobinsky...