Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest for Graham's State House seat has produced bitter accusations on both sides and sharply divided the East Cambridge neighborhoods that make up the 28th Middlesex district. Thompson charged that Graham had lost touch with her community and become inaccessible over the course of her 17-year political career...
...season opened in November against the fiercest foe the Crimson had faced in four year--the U.S. Olympic Team. With Harvard alumnus Scott Fusco '86 and undergraduates Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau, Team USA had a touch of Crimson. The Olympians proved as fierce as their high-scoring reputation, scorching Harvard...
...some of Graham's constituents feel that, in the process of gaining political power, Graham has lost touch with them. And they say that's why she lost this September's Democratic primary to Alvin E. Thompson...
...issue was Hallmark's Personal Touch series, a two-year-old line of 83 cards that feature long, syrupy poems adorned by picturesque natural landscapes. In their $100 million suit, the Schutzes contended that the Hallmark products were rip-offs of cards and posters they had been producing since the early 1970s. In May a U.S. appeals court agreed. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and now Hallmark has agreed to stop publishing the Personal Touch cards, buy back existing cards in the line from some 21,000 Hallmark outlets in the U.S. and pay the Schutzes...
...people of Nicaragua, Hurricane Joan was a rare thing, only the fourth such storm to touch their shores in the past century -- and by far the worst. But for officials in Managua and Washington, it was just politics as usual as Joan's 125-m.p.h. winds cut a swath of panic and devastation across the country, leaving 116 dead and flattening the Atlantic port city of Bluefields...