Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharp-tongued, curmudgeon-like though I am, I never said that some 20,000 fine voters in the 29th N.Y. Congressional District "every four years crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork to vote for William McKinley." The crawling-out-of-woodwork metaphor was an added touch by the New York Times writer; he had an unusually fine prose style, given to flourishes which, as he might put it, bode well for a career in journalism. I did remark, sadly, how certain voters up here seem to pledge fealty every four years to William McKinley, but just...
...Touch Football...
Members of the Band reported that teen-age children began running through the lines of musicians, and that one young hoodlum belted a Bandsman to touch off the melee. A cymbalist used his instruments as effective and bloody weapons, and one musician broke his drum stick over a near-by head...
Maine. The Democrats lead in every major event but the all-girl Senate race. Incumbent Margaret Chase Smith has come up fast, with a ladylike, personal-touch campaign, is outdistancing her Democratic rival, Lucia Cormier (TIME cover, Sept. 5), who sticks stolidly to peace and security, aid to education and other national issues...
...other House athletics this fall, Eliot and Winthrop will be defending the soccer and touch football crowns. The annual cross country run, won last year by John D. Evans III '61, will be held...