Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Midas touch arrived on the Dayton campus in the fall of 1977 to take over a football program that had not had a winning season since man had touched lunar turf. That first year, the team went 8-3 Then 9-2-1 Then 8-2-1 And in 1980. Rick Carter arrived on the national scene by coaching the Flyers to a 140 mark and the NCAA Division 3 National Championship, including a 63-0 win over Ithaca in the finals...
...instituted a series of reforms in the department, including a requirement of prior consultation with the patient before a Caesarian section is performed. Committee members say that action points to some concern over the Winig situation a concern Wacker has maintained is not necessary. And to add a mysterious touch, copies of an anonymous letter to The Crimson made the rounds of several Med area offices last week, changing that the chairman of the women's committee was waging personal vendetta against Winig Experienced officials point out discrepancies in the letter which imply a man posing as a woman...
...office, making phone calls. Green and white signs hung on the walls, brochures were strewn over the floors, and each person was pouring over a long computer list of names. "Good evening. I'm working for Frank McNamara for Congress. We think Tip O'Neill is no longer in touch with the district, and ...Hello, Hello...
...past or one that can be shared with at least other Jews. In a poem somewhat formidably titled "A Short History of Judaic thought in the Twentieth Century," the poet scratches her bead at the intellectual custom of answering a question with a question. If it is forbidden to touch a dying person except to remove him from a burning house. Pastan asks, who can she touch' She writes: aren't we all dying' You smile your negotiation smile and ask but aren't all our houses burning...
That meant focusing attention on the personality of his eggheadish foe, while putting just a little distance between himself and Reagan. Like his famous father before him, the Illinois Democrat lacks a personal touch. He has compiled his economic program for Illinois in a 300-page redevelopment pamphlet, yet on the stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos...