Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
...indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also one of the most confining of assignments. Reporters frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three or four states before hitting the next hotel bed at midnight. Traveling journalists, like other clients of arranged tours, tend to rehash the details of the day's events, or fret about mediocre food, lack of sleep or insufficient time to do laundry. On one demanding...
...Being able to keep your house affiliation is helpful because you can have your references written by your old tutor, or you can hang out in the common rooms of your old house or what ever-it's just easier to keep in touch," says Denny...
Although the formal announcement of Charmin of the Economics Department A. Michael Spence's appointment as dean of the Faculty lucked suspense, it placed the crowning touch on the University's massive effort to disseminate the news...
...final period, the icewomen were quick to find their scoring touch again. At 1:56 Hurley fell on a rush in the Terrier zone, but fed Deb Taft for the goal while down on the ice. Exactly two minutes later junior Mara McTaggart got her first goal of the year from close...