Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went awry, missing the backboard, and turnovers annoyingly stalled play. Harvard continually lost sight of Yale's center, Barb Liebowitz, who drove straight up the lane for unmolested lay-ups. Fortunately, Crimson center Lesley Greis and forward Wendy Carles were as productive at the other end, displaying a deft touch from the outside...
Despite her amnesia, after three more minutes of battle, and continual short lunges and off-target jabs, Cooper managed to garner the crucial touch from close range and win the bout...
...good order, behave responsibly, and to maintain proper decorum in relationship to the community." I do not believe its decision to hold classes set much of an example for us. But maybe this is one advantage that living away from Harvard provides--it is not so easy to lose touch with reality. Janet Corcoran '79 Chairman, Dudley House Committee
...reasonably well filled, those subjects are looming again as pre-eminent national concerns. Almost every day Califano is in the midst of the skirmishes on abortion, student loans, school desegregation, treatment of the handicapped, hospital costs, welfare reform, social security, smoking, drug control and dozens of other issues that touch the daily existence of every one of the 218 million people...
Today such cards, as well as punched tape, are still used. But they have been supplemented by other methods, including magnetic tapes, discs and drums; the precisely tuned beep-beeps of the Touch-Tone telephone (whose lower left and right buttons have been reserved for computer communications and other information processing); the familiar keyboard-and-TV unit; optical scanners that can "read" characters at high speeds; electronic ears that can recognize a limited number of spoken words...