Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only interesting aspect of the contest was the reemergence of Harvard captain Donald Fleming who scored 16 points as 30 minutes and showed hours quickly he could regain his offered touch after a sever four slump...
...well behind their assists, like co-captain Reed (four goals and seven assists, for 11 points), co-captain Julie Start (1-6-7) and Alex Light-foot (0-5-5), Wingers Liz Ward (6-5-11) and Jennifer White (6-4-10) are rapidly picking up the scoring touch. Dianne Hurley (8-10-18) is the only one who seems to have it down...
...touch was perfect. While they were counting the votes, he was playing a rugged game of volleyball, which was exactly the kind of unassuming conduct that the Finns had grown to expect of him and which they much admire. When the tally was completed, Mauno Koivisto, 58, the son of a carpenter and the holder of a Ph.D. in sociology, last week won 50.1% of the vote, enough to be assured of becoming his country's next President when Finland's 301-member electoral college meets this week. Then Koivisto will officially succeed Urho Kaleva Kekkonen...
...this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want us, they're terrified of the P.L.O., they don't like the Jordanians, so this is a way of entering a shell. It is an area that Israel can't really touch...
...picked up $300,000 for helping a gang of old friends who smuggled hashish and marijuana through Kennedy Airport. None of these distractions before the trial could be traced to Jacobson directly, but those familiar with his icy intelligence and manipulative methods, including Haden-Guest, saw Buddy's touch in all of them...