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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child, Hawking took apart clocks and motors to see if he could understand how they worked Today, using mathematics instead of screwdrivers, he disassembles parts of the faraway universe that he can't even touch and tries to picture their mechanics...

Author: By Matthew L. Meyerson, | Title: The Radiance of the Mind | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

...believe the essence of everything lies in touch, not in size and strength," said Sands after the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Businesslike Racketmen Net First Gain; Sands Leads Team in Rout Over B.U. | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...recorded, no different from Richard Nixon. The messianic figure who called a country to seek a New Frontier seemed to have been dumped back in the old hinterlands of presidential spying; the cool and courageous war hero was bugging his own family, as dirty a deed as tackling during touch football...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Edelstein, | Title: Debunking Camelot | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

Junior All-American Howard Sands returns as Harvard's most potent threat. Coach Dave Fish describes Sands as "a beautiful touch player, with a great volleying game. He's just a great control player who tries to break [his opponent...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Netmen Blast Off Today Superior Season Expected | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

...company has been trying for several hours to shoot a scene featuring the song Hail, Poetry ("For what, we ask, is life/ Without a touch of poetry in it?"). Director Leach sees the scene as a tableau, a Victorian postcard. He has shot it before, but the results seemed to him "like a bunch of people standing in a field." Shooting it again is costing money, and Universal Pictures has begun prodding Papp about costs; the production, which is scheduled for release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hail, Poetry | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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