Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final relay the Crimson son's persistence paid off. Senior Jim Kornish was able to touch just ahead of Princeton's Richard Hughes to give the Harvard team of Keith Kaplan, Dave Berkoff, Chris Smith and Kornish a gold medal and the entire squad a renewed sense of determination...
...often very confused--no sleep, no food, just walking around outside all the time. It's easy to lose touch with reality," Marshall says. Because of hunger and fatigue, he would often become disoriented and miss the free meals at St. Francis...
...dream was to come back and lead Harvard to the Ivy title," Duncan says with a touch of irony. "That was one of the reasons, I remember, that I wanted to come to Harvard--coach told me that Harvard had never won a championship and I've always thought of myself as a winner and I thought I could help lead Harvard to that first championship. So this year has been very tough on me--a lot of re-evaluation of myself...
...music filled the air. Suddenly the lights dimmed, clouds of smoke billowed across the red-carpeted floor, and a curtain parted to reveal a gleaming white jetliner. It was the A- 320, a 150-seat aircraft that is the new offering from Airbus, the European consortium. For a final touch of pizazz, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, on hand for the debut, sloshed champagne over the plane's nose...
...lacked in cheek coloring they made up in generosity and frankness. A family of poor fishermen he befriended insisted that he accept a gift of their boat (he dissuaded them with difficulty). When he brought out his cello to play for the family, they rushed across the room "to touch the divine object -- the red velvet lining inside the cello case." An aging athlete, posing for a snapshot, inquired gravely if it is true that in America, where "everything is modernized," there are ways of adding hair to photographs? "If you could do that for me, I'd be very...