Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominate Jimmy Carter, from Plains, Ga., a Southern Baptist who in the '60s did missionary work in the Northern slums. At any rate, the contrast between the nimbus around the podium during Carter's acceptance speech and the derelict streets outside promised to be a memorable touch...
...Boeing 707s (one used as a flying headquarters, the other as a hospital with 33 doctors and two surgical cabins), eight jet fighters as escorts, three tankers to refuel the fighters. Another C-130 fitted out as a radio transmission station kept the war room in Tel Aviv in touch with the raiders at Entebbe...
...largest personal fortune-some $500 million, or enough to put him in the same league with Karim Aga Khan, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Christina Onassis. He made every penny of it himself, building such a profitable group of diverse companies that Korean businessmen say he has a "golden touch." They also view him with fear: Lee does not gladly suffer critics or competitors...
They lined up four, five, six...20 deep--only wanting to touch the man. They had streamed into New York form Anchorage and Omaha and Kalamazoo, but tickets to the star-studded extravaganza were completely sold...
...character and his situation are fraught with parlous uncertainties. He has been a playboy prince who has boozed it up in the taverns with Falstaff. Does he possess the mettle for kingship? His men have divided hearts about the war in France. He must inspire them with "a little touch of Harry in the night." Before Agincourt he soliloquizes over the crushing burdens and terrible loneliness of royalty ("Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls ... our children and our sins lay on the King! We must bear...