Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to land the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center, the launch site, and each time bad weather had diverted the ship to Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. But this time, a looming Hurricane Josephine had cooperated by veering northward, making it possible to touch down in Florida. As the astronauts debarked, a nearby sign announced: WELCOME BACK. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER AT K.S.C...
Frank, however, is allowed no such relief, and this, combined with his driving ambition to succeed and to cross his own nature, forces him farther and farther from civilization and from sanity. As Frank loses touch with reality one is made actuely aware of the danger of aintense ambition I rank can respond to his own torment only by withdrawing from the civilized world. Harland's Half Acre explores this conflict, showing the complexity as well as relevancy of it in today's world...
...Sicilian Mafia came back to life in 1943, however, when U.S. intelligence asked American Mafia leaders to get in touch with their old colleagues on the island and persuade them to facilitate the movement of Allied troops during the invasion of Sicily. In return, the U.S. military government allowed Mafiosi to resume positions of power in a number of key Sicilian towns. Among the top operators in postwar Sicily was Italian-born American Mobster Vito Genovese, who had fled to Italy in 1937 when New York City Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey charged him with several underworld killings...
...most grownups remember them, baseball cards were icons of wholesomeness and tradition. The cardboard heroes flashed all-American smiles and nearly always posed hitting, pitching or fielding. But now a touch of flamboyance is stealing into the baseball-card business (estimated sales: $45 million). While most cards retain the classic style, a few of the new designs might be enough to make Cubs Announcer Harry Caray blurt his famous "Holy...
Like Jim Callinan before him, junior fullback Robert Santiago eluded a swarm of scrambling visitors and sprinted for a 73-yd. touch-down--five yards further than Callinan did the day he broke the Harvard single-season rushing record...