Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday everything came together, and the Crimson touch was magic. Bain, Lemmon and Brad Desaulniers, in "A" division, beat their opponents to advance to the semi-finals. Chip Robie, playing on a swollen ankle, and Charlie Duffy both dropped close four-game matches and entered consolations. The Crimson stood within a point of Princeton, going into Saturday afternoon's semi-finals...
...grade-B effort from Reagan is still an effective performance. The President introduced one characteristic touch to make statistics come alive: observing that the national debt is approaching $1 trillion, he remarked, raising his arm, that a trillion dollars stacked up in $1,000 bills would make a pile 67 miles high.* At least some opponents in the TV audience were grudgingly impressed. California Leftist Tom Hayden, 40, who opposes the program as inequitable, nonetheless judged Reagan's presentation "one of the most substantial speeches by an American President in my lifetime...
...federal budget cuts proposed by the President look crisp and bloodless when summarized in tidy charts and statistical tables, but it is a very long way from the Latinate language of program descriptions to the bumpy realities of people and places those Washington moneys touch. Though inevitably some were born of boondoggling and hornswoggling in the give and take of American politics, most federal programs were conceived with the best of intentions, created to advance goals on which much of America agreed. To feed the hungry. To heal the sick. To train the jobless. To enable the nation...
...minority interest group, for all the self-righteousness of the title -should probably have the Bill of Rights embroidered on their shirt cuffs, lest some of their coercive impulses run away with them. The movement led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell is potentially dangerous to democracy; with a disturbing touch of zealotry and intolerance, it would like to impose by legislation its interpretations of Christian morality upon the rest of the erring populace. Of course the Falwells can argue that they are simply reacting against the liberals' own past attempts to legislate their version of civic virtue. Both sides...
Early in the second half of last Tuesday's Harvard-Northeastern basketball game, Huskie Dave Leitao--putting the finishing touch on a Northeastern fast break--received a pass deep in the lane, took one giant step toward the basket, and delicately laid the ball through the hoop...