Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dark Suit II: "Swell, R. J., I'll have my girl get in touch with your girl...
...nailed on the Boards. Also that the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scores the tests by kicking them downstairs or by flipping coins. At the College Board, they collect jokes like this and tape them to the outside of their office doors. It helps them feel they're in touch with the outside world...
...folks at the College Board, most of whom hadn't seen a real live student since 1950, were more amused than anything else at the kinds of questions I told them my friends kept asking me, like, "Oh, you're working for the ETS. Wanna touch up my transcript?" Or, "Oh, you're making up the SATs. My sister's going into her senior year...
...starting to enjoy it more now," she said the other day in her sitting room, lustrous from the deft touch of her decorator and the afternoon sun. That very act-White House redecoration-was one of controversy. The Franklin Roosevelts continued their aristocratic life of yachts and grand homes. The John Kennedys poured huge sums into clothes and antiques. Neither suffered because Government was expanding to help the underprivileged. Now each dollar the Reagans spend is publicly juxtaposed against a budget cut. Butterflies can get bent out of shape in that house of mirrors...
Haig was in touch with me every day thereafter. On Thursday, Aug. 1, he said matters were heading toward resignation, though the Nixon family was violently opposed. On Friday, Aug. 2, he told me that Nixon was digging in his heels; it might be necessary to put the 82nd Airborne Division around the White House to protect the President. This I said was nonsense; a presidency could not be conducted from a White House ringed with bayonets. Haig said he agreed completely; as a military man it made him heartsick to think of the Army in that role; he simply...