Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defining event for these radio activists was the battle early this year over the proposed congressional pay raise. Inspired by outraged callers, a number of talk hosts initiated letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio campaign was widely credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston...
...letters and efforts coming from both sides of this fight, Kennedy received the added advantage of help from Glimp, his long-time friend. After Kennedy wrote the letter, Glimp put him in touch with Charles J. Egan '54, and alumnus who has been active in fighting HRAAA. Egan then paid more than $9500 to publish Kennedy's letter as an advertisment in Harvard Magazine...
...daughter of a Jamestown, N.Y., electrician, Ball left home at 15 to study acting in New York City. Although she started as a model and chorus-line beauty, she never lost touch with the insecure, self-conscious adolescent inside her and seemed most at ease when playing a zany or a frump. Her great creation was the Lucy character, a Little Scamp who was forever conniving, forever failing, forever meriting punishment yet winning forgiveness. The thwarted schemer was a figure dating back to the Romans if not the Greeks, but Ball deftly sentimentalized the character, merged its cunning intellect with...
...When did you first get in touch with your will...
...went with ((Hosni)) Mubarak walking down the ((White House)) stairs, and I said to him, "I want you to see a little touch of our democracy. This house is the people's house." And we walked. I said, "Let's not go in the elevator. At this time of day there are tourists. I don't know who they are, but I'll guarantee you they're from all over our country." And I stopped on the stairs and said, "This is the President of Egypt." The ((people)) were calling, "Hi, George...