Word: touche
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...down on his penalties, Blair hasn't lost the playoff touch that has also been his hallmark...
...world. The choice is Harvard, founded in 1636, first among American universities, located in Boston, or it's Clarkson, formerly Clarkson Tech, located in Potsdam, N.Y., four hours from the rest of the world. Harvard is always a good name to have in your tournament program, it adds a touch of class and reminds everyone that colleges are for learning...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their...
...wasn't Dan Rather or George Will. It was the pictures -- the nuns, and the crowds wearing a touch of yellow, blocking the path of the armored cars. It was the sight of ballot boxes being dumped. Read in a newspaper, Marcos' bluster might have been convincing, but seen on that palatial King and I set, with the ruler feebly speaking those strong words, it was not. In a precarious few days, it was the total collapse of Marcos' American support that sped the end. TV proved its awesome power...
Smiling, relaxed, he rambled on, hopelessly out of touch with any acceptable reality: "...As T.S. Eliot once told me,...hmn, ha ha,...and thus, you know, a novus homo, ho ho, ...and therefore, Robert Browning stands as...hee hee, `...the boy stood on the burning deck,' ...Michael Blumenthal 'hath perced to the roote,' ...on the other hand...I'm Spartacus...