Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffering alcoholic, and I was no exception. I had no idea why I was an alcoholic at all, though I should have: my father was one. But from his illness I had gained only a morbid fear of the substance, which lasted until I reached college. I would never touch the stuff. That prolonged abstinence while my adolescent peers experimented with liquor only made what happened to me more mystifying. I thought I could take alcohol or leave...
...have worked through my years at the News to demonstrate that the mind is always supreme over the body. At least this is certainly true in my case. And to press the point, I have often undergone hunger strikes for many days, while continuously editing and keeping in touch with sources. As you know, I still pass out frequently while editing stories, eating a meal or doing things that I cannot mention without offending Christie's very admirable sensibilities...
...those who travel to Yale will be mere spectators at The Game. Harvard house intramural teams will travel to Yale in force to take on their counterpart teams in events ranging from touch football to soccer...
Part of the strategy involves shedding his previous reluctance to talk about himself or his crippling war wound. Now he uses an intensely personal autobiographical campaign speech. "He grudgingly recognized that the personal touch is effective," explains Confidant Tully Plesser...
...Nick and Dave both play the role of our target man," fellow sophomore Paul Baverstock said. "They try to get in position to set up people with touch passes and create scoring oppurtunities...