Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think there are interesting issues involved in this case that touch deeply on sex-role problems in our society. On the one hand, there are traditional expectations that men will manage the business affairs of the family and wives will sign on as secretary-treasurer or vice president or whatever their husbands ask them to. It is just as conventionally understood that the husband will then run the business, get the accounts done and pay the taxes. That is standard practice...
...trials in May. For death-defying suspense, the spectacle of Gabriela reeling to a 37th-place finish was the most prolonged horror of the Games. She is a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, grotesquely adept at staying upright. Nobody in the Coliseum could either help, touch or help being touched by the looniness of the long-distance runner...
Riding High with a Touch of Class at Santa Anita
...Auckland dairy farmer, galloped to New Zealand's first equestrian gold medal (the U.S.'s Karen Stives and Britain's Virginia Holgate took silver and bronze). Team dressage, which tests a horse's memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad to its first ever gold in team show jumping. Joe Fargis, who shares a Virginia farm with Homfeld, was aboard. He compared the little mare to Runner Zola Budd: "She's quite small too, but she runs very fast for her size...
Afterward international ties of friendship were cemented in the lobby. "Are you a fencer?" asked an American of a French girl. "Sure." "Hey! Wow! Touché!" -By Jane O'Reilly