Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute walk to class from 29 Garden St. was welcome opportunity for some much-needed exercise, fresh air and a touch of perspective in the midst of an otherwise very insular experience...
...enemy has almost reached the point where he can touch the golden ring," Koernke intones in the video. "All their different schemes, plotting and conniving have come to a nexus, a point in time at which they have the opportunity to grab everything." The only hope, he declares, lies in inducing the conspirators to act prematurely, before their confederates in the Federal Government have managed to completely disarm the Patriots. "If we are lucky, we can get them to move too quickly." War on American soil is probably inevitable. "Did I say it was going to be a short...
...needed most-not only from the President but also from Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. While the First Lady's policy views differ from those of the right-leaning Morris, she has admired him since 1982, when he helped Clinton overcome an image as an out-of-touch liberal and win back the Governor's mansion in Arkansas. Both Clintons hope Morris can lead them to a similar comeback...
...Squier who adjusted the lighting and critiqued the President's makeup. Then Clinton went on the air, emphasizing how his budget plan differed from the g.o.p. version: it would eliminate the deficit in 10 years instead of seven, protect education, and go easier on Medicare. The Morris touch lay in Clinton's conciliatory tone toward Republicans, his embrace of moderate Democrats and his willingness to alienate liberals. "This could be a turning point for us," Clinton told his TV audience, suggesting that bipartisanship could lead to real fiscal discipline for the first time in decades...
...there may be fair warning here that the author is a club member too. Would-be writers cursed with the thin childhood material of loving parents and sensible households may suspect a touch of exaggeration when, more or less safely delivered into adulthood, Karr rummages in the family attic. She's looking for the six or seven wedding rings from her mother's rumored but stubbornly unacknowledged previous marriages. What she finds is the artificial leg of her despised dead grandmother...