Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best hands on the team. And that they wanted to move me out to split end. He said, 'We're going to get you the ball a lot.' I was told I was going to get the ball and I'm not getting the ball. It's got to touch my hands so I can do something with...
After Scheper left Northridge, Ca., for Harvard, the two stayed in touch. "We'd write letter," Gigi says. "We got to know each other through writing and phone calls." When Paul returned to California for Christmas vacation, the pair started going out, and they've been together ever since. Until they got married August 22, however, it was mostly romance by long distance. In fact, when Paul asked Gigi to marry him on February 12, 1981, it was, believe it or not, over the phone. Actually the two had discussed marriage previously, but Paul wanted to check...
Order certainly was not what Walesa faced when he returned to the unruly Solidarity meeting, which had continued in rump session while he was taking part in the discussions in Warsaw. There was still a touch of the mutinous mood when Walesa took the podium to make a report. Said he: "The authorities have stated that they are prepared to undertake talks on all problems important for the Poles." But he warned that Jaruzelski expected both sides to make compromises...
...piece does not play as a cliché. Hepburn, for example may have a less chewy part than has Fonda, but the briskness of her manner, her well-justified image as a no-nonsense individualist who is nevertheless a good sport, serve her wonderfully. There is a vivifying touch of tension between an actress who was a liberated woman before the movement was born and her role as traditional wife and mother...
According to McLean Stevenson, then in the athletic department, Northwestern has had more than a touch of such luck...