Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clara and Teddy keep in touch, soul mates if not literal ones, and she, ever busier and more independent, attaches talismanic significance to the emerald ring: "In it Ithiel's pledge was frozen." She loses it, grieves, collects the insurance and then finds it wedged under her bed. The next time it turns up missing, Clara knows it has been stolen...
...which was founded on mutual distrust of the Soviet Union, is changing as Gorbachev prepares to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Deng Xiaoping. Yet there was no indication that Bush spelled out American rethinking of where the relationship goes from here. Nor was he prepared to touch on any ticklish trade and security issues in a six-hour visit to South Korea on Monday before winging home...
...front of televisions, watching Berkoff disappear, reappear and touch the final wall. The NBC graphics flashed the time: "54.51." A new world record...
MacDonald batted the puck back and forth at the right side of the net while Young moved into position at the other side of the goal. But Young never had a chance to touch the puck. MacDonald angled a shot that slid behind Fletcher, bumping against him and falling into the front left corner of the goal...
...Secretary of State James Baker is renowned for keeping his boss out of deep doo-doo and never stepping into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...