Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipated, and being unable to silence his quarreling foreign policy makers, offhandedness was not enough. Among columnists, critics were getting sharper and sympathizers uneasy, often a portent of troubles to come. Anthony Lewis called the conduct of foreign policy "a national joke"; William Safire regretfully accused Reagan of losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when in trouble. Reagan is remarkably free of sustained vendettas, yet his one-liner about the Haig flap was uncomfortably reminiscent...
...curious fact was noticed during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Y over the Yale team...
...Stahura threw still antoher pass. It went into the end zone, intended for Lewis. Lewis bobbled the ball, but before it fell to the soaked turf. Kennedy picked it up for the touch-down...
...Harvard--I would recommend it to anyone," Szaro says. "I would never substitute it for going to other schools around the country. People say that we have touch football in the Ivy League, but we took it for what it was. Just...
...Beatty, as the invincible Flash Speedo, along with sidekick Crusty Oldguy (Jack Warden) and faithful dog Arfie (Barbara Stanwyck) fiods himself in one sticky situation after another. Watch him battle Goldie Hawn as the hair-raising Dumb Blond Monster from the planet Nomind, a creature so terrible, its mere touch can turn a normal man into a silly sex object...