Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past year, shot up to $104, helped by a single day's rise of more than $27 after the deal was announced. Few observers, though, were totally convinced that Marathon's fate has been sealed. Mobil could raise its offer and touch off a bidding war, other oil companies might try to get Marathon, or the Government could rule out any merger on antitrust grounds. The Marathon drama may go on for several weeks...
...outlets into so-called box stores, which are small, streamlined operations stocked usually with heavily discounted products from A & P's own factories rather than bestselling national brands. This strategy had worked well at Tengelmann stores in West Germany, but in the U.S. the company found its golden touch turned to lead...
WOMEN CAN BE VERY FRIGHTENING. Sometimes I panic in the middle of talking to them, sometimes I can't even get that far. Sex is too complicated, relationships too difficult. I'm losing touch with my fellow man; I have an urge that creeps like chocolate syrup up my pant legs when I see a woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into...
Where Walsh, 49, fits among coaches is not easy to tell, either. His pedigree is complicated. Walsh is not just a pup out of Paul Brown, as people say. He is by Brown out of Al Davis with a touch of Sid Gillman (since Davis is really Gillman taken to the nth degree). "Al gave me the taste for offense," Walsh says of the year (1966) he assisted the evil genius of the Oakland Raiders. "He opened vistas...
...look at the stat sheet shows that the Harvard defense was unable to break up the combination of quarterback John Rogan and split end Curtis Grieve, as Grieve caught four passes for 82 yards and two touch-downs (although back-up QB Joe Dufek threw the second scoring strike). What the sheets don't show, however, is that Grieve's performance earned him several spots in the Eli record books...