Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bawbby, get the bawl from the, uh, cah and throw me a, uh, paaass," is often echoed in memory of Kennedy touch football clashes...
...light of these memories, it is particularly disturbing to see the Kennedy name attached to the monstrosity at the corner of Soldiers Field Road and JFK street. Kennedy Park--it is still hard to utter--was once a vacant lot utilized by Harvard students from River to Quad for touch football games and other irreverent delinquencies. Some of the Kennedys may even have honed their paaass-caaatching talents there in their undergraduate days...
...space is occupied by an ugly, iron-fence-enclosed garden with little resemblance to a park. A road down the middle of it prevents the playing of anything resembling touch football. Future plans call for flowerbeds and the planting of trees. Hardly a gridiron...
Investigators said Pilot Chester Baker, owner of the Mooney, and Instructor Paul Lietz had been practicing "touch and go" landings and takeoffs at an airport near Kearns, Utah. At about 12:50 p.m. Baker touched down briefly, then lifted off and climbed sharply upward. The Metro, en route from Pocatello, Idaho, with six passengers and two crew members, was about to make a turn for its approach to the international airport...
Another playwright Brustein would not touch with a 20-foot curtain rod is Clifford Odets, author of the Huntington's latest offering, Awake and Sing. Odets was one of the most prominent American playwrights of the 1930s, working with the Group Theater, the idealistic, left-wing venture that helped bring the modern theater to the United States. Odets first hit the big time with his Socialist one-act, Waiting for Lefty, which supposedly had audiences on their feet, yelling "Strike! Strike...