Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final match was a thriller with neither fencer able to gain more than a one-point advantage. And after a double-touch (each fencer getting a point), the contest was even...
Twenty-six matches, 217 touches, and over two hours of fencing had left Harvard and Cornell in sudden death.. one touch wins...
With lightning quickness, Loeser ducked under his lunging opponent and swiped the win with a "reflex touch." Loeser was immediately mobbed by his ecstatic teammates...
Practically nobody, however, has managed to touch the sensitive nerve of a vast section of mankind as effectively as Salman Rushdie. In Bombay seven prominent writers and intellectuals, all non-Muslims, declared in a joint statement, "The pain of scurrilous intrusion into the regions of the sacred is not felt by the so-called fundamentalists only, but is the common experience of the whole, besieged ((Muslim)) minority. While there can be rational opposition to their faith, there should be no outraging of it by obscenity and slander...
...including reporters or federal agents, can find Schultz, Billy is allowed into his presence: "It is spectacular enough to see someone in the flesh whom you've only known in the newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry...