Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price war bewilders even Eli Timoner, chairman of Air Florida, which helped touch off the round of cuts that every other airline feels obliged to match. Things are out of hand, says Timoner, and the time has come to raise fares. Earnings for Air Florida's fourth quarter are expected to be down sharply. "It's like lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff," says he. "There's no logic to it at this point. It's unbusinesslike...
...year, another child. Older women may pass along their clothes to a friend, and they are no longer just garments then, but talismans, gentle reassurances. In this sharing there is a reaffirmation of community and a kind of unspoken communion that fashion would never encourage and could never, ever touch...
...harvest time for the Crimson not to mention party line squash. The team unveiled its customary array of shots. In a quality and quantity the Quakers found impossible to match. Harvard possessed simply too much of what they call "racket skills"--shot-making touch, timing for their less-experienced and probably less-talented opponents...
...NOTEBOOK: Marget Long led the Crimson with 14 points while Horne chipped in 13 hard-earned points... The Huskies' center, Ellen Soja, led all scorers with 16 points, showing remarkable touch for a woman of her size...
...becomes a Brechtian figure of American corruption. Goldie's aunt and guardian, Mrs. Kensworth (Anna McNeely), the kind, matronly refugee from a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, foreshadows the decadence of the roaring '20s. Her and Anstey's affectations, their overladenness with jewels, and their presumed moral superiority add a touch of the gilded future America would find in store...