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Word: touchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UCLA, the rules were changed expressly to thwart him. Dunking, jamming the ball into the basket from above, was temporarily outlawed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Still, with a sullen grace and dispassionate touch, he showed UCLA to 88 wins in 90 games and three national titles. He was the NBA's first draft choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: An Ominous Giant's Farewell | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

When left-leaning law professors learned Thursday that Bok had chosen Clark--known for his vocal attacks on radical scholarship--they were unusually critical in their comments. One professor called the appointment a "disaster," and another said Bok was "out of touch" with the faculty...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Bok Opts for 'Character' Over Consensus | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...never told Wendy where the book came from, and as the year wore on I lost touch with her. Fourth-graders are pretty fickle, and by the end of elementary school, so I heard, she had run off with some guy on a motorcycle...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pocketful Of Stars: Michael Ovitz | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...touch was there tonight when it counted. After building a 77-72 lead with 2:17 to play, the Crimson watches as Yale guard Dean Campbell torched them for six of his 21 points, including a breakaway lay-up after he stripped the ball from Harvard's Ralph James...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: James' 26 Points Lead Cagers Over Yale | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

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