Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite police and National Guard protection, the truckers kept running scared. Many carried guns in their cabs and were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...
Vastola sliced the Lion's Wayne Miller, 5-2, in his opening battle, then breezed past Harold Cataquet, 5-2, gaining the last touch by disengaging his blade from Cataquet's before touching the Columbian's upper right shoulder...
...album's other high points come with "If You Can Touch Her At All," a meditative sad song, and "Don't Cuss the Fiddle," which leads into an impromptu chorus of "Goodhearted Woman." But perhaps most engaging is "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" the quintessential country song about putting quarters in the same Wurlitzer every night, playing the old songs and thinking about a woman. And even Waylon's death wish, which came through on the uneven Luchenbach album when he recorded "Sweet Caroline" and sometimes makes you think he wants...
Thirty-six seconds left, Brandeis up 8-7 in bouts, Harvard leading the last bout 4-1, the meet tied 55-55 in touches. Thirty seconds left, 25...20...15...10.... Cooper beats Mejias's blade down, lunges forward, touches her in the underarm. Harvard takes the match by one touch, the Harvard fencers stream onto the strip cheering frantically, joy abounds...
After Mejias gathered the first touch on a high lunge which Cooper parried too late the Brandeis fencers stood at the side advising their teammate to "relax, wait, bide your time," in an effort to run out the clock...