Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans refused to touch a hair on the head of these economic Benedict Arnolds. Perhaps it was because they donate millions to the Republicans' campaign coffers. It could also have something to do with the fact that these men and women, who evidently decided that being American was not worth sharing in the common burden, hired high-priced lobbyists, including ex-congressmen, who roamed the hallowed halls of the house of democracy convincing our representatives that it was in the national interest to debase the idea of citizenship...
...Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school prayer and choice. He then socialized with a collection of the Republican Party's movers and shakers in New Hampshire. Through it all he kept in constant touch with his headquarters in Virginia and his Washington office by way of a cellular phone...
After the Corporation's decision was announced last month, professors said the rejection of the Standing Committee's proposal to rescind the pension reduction would serve only to increase tension and decrease touch between the Faculty and the administration...
...stalls of our fish markets-but who is to decide when doctors disagree? At all events, whether this production is the work of nature or art, it is decidedly the most stupendous curiosity ever submitted to the public for inspection. If it is artificial, the sense of sight and touch are useless, for art has rendered them totally ineffectual. If it is natural, then all concur in declaring...
...Allegretto, Buswell happily obliged all of Bartok's fantastic rambunctiousness. Towards the middle of the movement, in a mostly pizzacato section, he appeared struggling on the border between ardor and desperation. Meanwhile, Levinson conveyed the tremendous weight of the opposing force without any unwieldiness; he again showed his incredible touch during the movement's few moments of soft respite...