Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic nomination of a woman for Vice President added to the political selfesteem. The high spirits surrounding the Olympic Games struck some observers as jingoistic and ungracious. But with American athletes winning nearly everything in sight, the country was able to see itself as it liked: wholesome, powerful, a touch rowdy. Americans could celebrate as they had not done in a long time...
...Hunt's "entire career as Governor has been based on flip-flops and contradictions when tough issues arise." Hunt exclaimed: "How far back do you want to take us-20, 30, 50 years? This is a state that is making progress, Jesse. You're just out of touch with...
...believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another of the decision to publish Sakharov's article: "It's designed to show the world, and in particular his fellow scientists in the West, that he is allowed to work...
...Maori master carvers did not always create objects of massive size or religious significance. They could show a unique touch with such humble household necessities as the fishhook. The curve of the shank was obtained by training a branch of a living tree. When the hook was to be used by a man of high rank, it was topped with a dainty head. The deadliest of the Maori weapons, the sharp-sided club used in hand-to-hand fighting, is of similarly graceful design. Both categories of artwork bear an eerie resemblance to the 3000 B.C. figurines from the Cycladic...
...like a garbage collecter back on defense," Pew said, "and I only get to touch the ball when it gets through everyone else...