Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate caught his touch of Olympic fever at a TIME reception in Beverly Hills for the opening of the Games. There he was privileged to perform an unusual introduction: "We had invited Bill and Evelyn Lewis, Carl's parents, and Mrs. Ruth Owens, widow of Jesse Owens," Cate recalls. "They had never met, but they greeted one another like long-lost friends and chatted together for the better part of an hour...
...expected Ferraro to be a brassy, pushy New Yorker. After hearing her speak, I became an excited supporter. She has charisma, compassion, the ability to laugh at herself and a human touch that the Republican women in government lack...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
...something a ten-year-old would do," complained Activist Doris Anderson. Other prospective victims designed a "bum wrap," special form-fitting cardboard shield to be worn as a rear guard against the Turner touch. The glad-hander's explanation of his cheekiness: "I'm a hugger. I'm a tactile politician I'm reaching out to people...
...into a 40-minute meeting with TIME editors and correspondents. The ferocity of a vice-presidential candidate's schedule, she quickly learned, leaves hardly any time for leisurely schmoozing. "I never get to mill, "Ferraro complained, smiling. "Only a week, and I'm already out of touch...