Word: touche
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...covering the match tried drumming up Russian support for Chelsea on the grounds of it being owned by oligarch Abramovich, which, they suggested would mean it could bring Russia a victory by proxy. But the proxy result was a defeat. Much as connoisseurs enjoyed the often dramatic match, a touch of bitterness lingered. A friend summed it up succinctly: "That's what Abramovich spent a billion dollars on? To buy these blue-clad fumblers? What a waste of our money...
...McCain’s wrists go limp when he’s dueling Democrats. The maverick labeled Obama’s plan to raise taxes “out of touch.” He called the Democratic frontrunner’s pledge to keep troops in Iraq to attack al Qaeda, after vowing to withdraw them immediately, “remarkable.” And when Ahmed Yousef, a member of Hamas, effectively endorsed Obama, McCain bellowed, “I think people can make judgments accordingly...
...abortion issue. "As positions on both sides of this debate have hardened the past three decades, they have also grown more distant from the lives of everyday people," she told the audience [italics hers]. "The slogans and bumper stickers that paint this issue in black and white no longer touch the profound complexity most people feel on the issue of abortion...
...intense State of Origin campaign as the coach of New South Wales. He was clearly under stress: his reputation was on the line (Queensland had trounced N.S.W. under Gibson the previous year) and there was a whisper that, among the players, he was seen as a little out of touch. At team training one morning, while Gibson "fed the chooks," as he called speaking to journalists, I botched the phrasing of a question and he lasered me with a look of contempt. A week or so later, I called him at his home to address a delicate matter of team...
...traditional country-music styles, guitarist and singer Eddy Arnold earned induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966 and a spot on the Top 10 charts alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1965. Raised on a Tennessee sharecropper's farm, Arnold never lost touch with his roots. Even as he gained an increasingly cosmopolitan following with crossover hits like Make the World Go Away, he continued to refer to himself as the "Tennessee Plowboy," at one point even crediting his success to hard work on the farm. "That's why I wanted to play the guitar...