Word: touched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What I did say, and continue to believe, is that many Jewish young people's spiritual needs are not met in a purely cultural interpretation of the Jewish religious tradition. In this sense, a Jewish rap group does not touch the religiously meaningful core required by today's young people...
Eventually, however, he and a friend began playing in weekend sandlot games in Macombs Dam Park, adjacent to Yankee Stadium. The hitting touch developed in Panama had not deserted him. After a few weeks he caught the eye of a teammate's father who was a "bird dog"-an unofficial unpaid scout -for the Minnesota Twins. A phone call brought a scout; the scout made another call, which, in turn, fetched the Twins' farm director. Finally, when Minnesota came to town for a series with the Yankees, young Carew was brought inside the stadium...
...citizens of Everett were no more amused with the actions of the law than the strikers had been. But the workers' protest came sooner. That evening they got in touch with Luscomb and Sara DuPont, known as champions of progressive causes since before historians dignified those years as an "era." Luscomb and DuPont had shared the days when advocating reform often meant speaking from soapboxes to mangy dogs and small boys on universal suffrage, civil rights for Americans of every race and color, and the claim each man or woman had to earning a decent wage...
...police, with the approval of their Chief, had been accepting money not only from the city whose children they had accidentally gassed but also from the striking seamen's employers. The Chief of Police was subsequently fired and the two women's actions had added the initial theatrical touch that brought the story into the open...
...ideal choice to play MacArthur. He is a pleasant man, good at playing troubled, conscientious, reasonable characters. But he is perhaps the least self-centered of actors, and while he tries hard to adopt the grand MacArthur manner he just cannot manage it. The fire, the touch of lunacy, is not there, though Peck does nicely in the first and last scenes when he portrays the aged general, flames banked, the mood autumnal...