Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shooter's touch? There's the shot that made those NBA "Fantastic" commercials. The one where he's on the baseline and shoots it over the top of the backboard...
Most of the times posted by the Crimson were solid for this point in the season, and would have been winners against another unshaven team. But the Cadets took to the razors for last week's big showdown with Navy, and all they needed was a touch-up job on Friday night to provide Harvard with its second league loss of the early season...
...seeming weakness turned out to be a trap. The company's officers even let it be known that Kravis was heading to Vail, Colo., for a skiing weekend and that Roberts was flying back to his home in San Francisco. But Kravis and Roberts stayed in close touch with their team in New York City as it prepared the final attack. When the directors met last week on the 35th floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper to open the final bids, they found that Kravis and Roberts had pumped their offer up to $106 a share, while the apparently complacent...
...bulldog Secretary acted "from his gut," say State Department aides, but not completely without outside support. A majority of 51 Senators urged him not to admit Arafat. Some members of Congress had been quietly in touch with Jewish representatives. "We didn't want the campaign against Arafat to be an Israeli one; we wanted America to take the lead," explained an Israeli official. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir went on record as opposing a visa for Arafat in a mid-November meeting with U.S. Ambassador Tom Pickering...
...delightful distress with his new-found rank is capably contrasted by Pooh-Bah's ridiculous revelling in his. "Born sneering," Bamberger struts, nose in the air, squeamishly shrinking from the touch of commoners ("Lower than the rank of stockbroker"), except when money is in the commoner's hand. He repeatedly reminds the audience of his nobility, tracing his lineage back to his "protoplasmic ancestor...