Word: touche
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What will QB Tom Yohe do next? After passing for a career-best 265 yards last week against Northeastern, the junior signalcaller has proven he can get Harvard's offense moving. In two games, Yohe has thrown for 410 yards and 5 touch-downs. His scrambling ability has also created some valuable Harvard scores...
...ball movement to create the open shots was unbelievable," Harvard Assistant Coach Dale Snyder said. "They had touch passes where they just knew they were going to be there...
What is perhaps most distressing about this portrait is its familiarity. The picture of an inattentive, out-of-touch President may have been limned before, but never so authoritatively. The President who told the Tower commission, formally known as the President's Special Review Board, that he "had not been advised at any time . . . how the plan would be implemented" is the same Reagan who has consistently fumbled names and numbers in press conferences and campaign speeches over the years. The President who did not understand that arms-for-hostages swaps, in the commission's words, "ran directly counter...
...sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles (perhaps all nuclear weapons; it is impossible to get the story straight). Reagan, the roseate accommodator, had believed his own cover story. So his helpers had to scurry around, trying to touch down again on some reality after the nightmare love-in of Reykjavik...
...very fast). "My butt may be sore, but that's the price you pay for a thrill," says Symms. Fortunately, after a harrowing start, most newcomers master the art as quickly as they fall down. "By your third day you can be skiing slopes that beginning skiers wouldn't touch," says David Alden, a former amateur snowboard champion...