Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privileged and honored to serve someone whose entire career has been devoted to making a positive difference in the lives of others. According to you, Mrs. Dole's Christian faith and common courtesy are at the least puzzling and at the most threatening. Perhaps you are out of touch with her values and the values of most Americans. It is unfortunate that your readers were denied a fair look at the real Elizabeth Dole. CINDI F. WILLIAMS Chief of Staff to Elizabeth Dole Washington...
...Playing touch football for 30-45 minutes...
...subcontinent called kabaddi. So what's so hard to believe about that? "Well, there are two seven-man teams, and a player from one team--he's called the raider--is sent into the opponents' half of the field," I later explained to my friend Charlie. "He tries to touch as many opposing players as possible, and they try not to be touched or to keep him from returning to his territory...
Contrary to the doom and gloom prophesied by the traditional pessimists, what I witnessed firsthand during my short stay in the Holy Land revitalized my own hopes for the future. The smiling faces of Israeli children on beaches their parents defend hourly belie the ominous predictions of out-of-touch journalists. Netanyahu's victory was a victory for anyone who has chosen to put their faith in security as the most important stepping stone to lasting peace and sovereignty not just for Israelis, but for all peoples in the Middle East. Netanyahu gives us faith that a new generation...
...production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" does have a touch of the "take your medicine" about it. Daniels had the sense not to meddle too much with the play or its conventional performance style, to let it stretch out to its own onerous length of three hours and shoulder its own inexplicable burden of a housemaid's scattered cameos and her inevitably painful Irish accent. The play stands by itself, an unblinking testament to all-American dysfunction at the very site, the vacation home, where family togetherness is supposed to be at its best. Fortunately for us, this...