Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some USO members are not diligent about keeping in touch with their assigned groups," he says, explaining that communication problems have plagues funding efforts...
While the entrees approached magnificence, desserts held their own. Hot chocolate soup may sound like a childhood attempt to find the right ratio between fudge sauce and ice cream in a sundae. But the dish was highly sophisticated, made from velvety, warm, bittersweet chocolate swirled with a touch of cream and punctuated by croutons of cinnamon pound cake. The second dessert, slices of wine-soaked strudel wrapped in phyllo pastry and served with poached pear, saves the tables from gluttonous chocolate saturation and coffee inevitably rounds out the meal...
...going to ignore those paralyzing fears. I still love playing the guitar and singing along, whether it's to blues, folk or some straight-up rock. Besides, I've got this irrational confidence that everything'll be alright. I'm not claiming that everything I touch turns to gold, but I keep pickin', and I keep getting better at it; I figure one of these days, I'll set up shop in the Park Street T-stop and find myself swept along from Boston to the world. Ahh...sounds beautiful. And while people do tend to tell me that...
...term "parents" carries different connotations for different people. Some of us talk to our mothers or fathers almost every day. Some haven't made contact with them in months. Others might not have any parents to get in touch with at all. And even among those of us whose family life resembles a 1950s sitcom fantasy-world, parents' attitudes toward visiting college will vary. Those juniors who are first-born or only children might still inspire their parents' awe by showing them Lowell House. My parents, by contrast, are tuition junkies well on their way to burnout. As of next...
Picture the bullnecked jailer in Cool Hand Luke, throw in some of former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, add a touch of Yosemite Sam and you get Sheriff Joe. And right now the boss hog, who averages a speech a day and makes Madonna look like a media wallflower, is wowing the retirees with lines about how he'd hate to be in a top bunk tonight...