Word: touching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meltzer told some of the businessmen that he was an undercover FBI agent. Those who got in touch with the FBI about him discovered that he did indeed have a connection, if only because Meltzer immediately phoned them back. Several told the New York Times that the knowledge increased their confidence in Meltzer, but some did get suspicious. Meltzer kept summoning them to distant locations-New York City, London, the Cayman Islands-to pick up their money, but produced excuses for not handing it over and for not letting borrowers meet the sheik...
...they did against Pennsylvania Friday night, the Crimson cagers tried to erase 35 minutes of mediocrity with a miraculous stretch drive. But instead of a hot shooting hand stopped Harvard, as the Quakers' fine touch had done in the Palestra, it was an official's short fuse that derailed the hard-charging Cambridge express...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this was "dirty pool." Said he: "If anything, Kennedy should have attacked the militants. He should have supported the President." Complained Richard Maynard, 30, a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia: "There was a move for national unity, and Kennedy wasn't in touch with that...
...thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...
Perkins said young scholars are "generally more in touch with the intellectual problems of their generation." He also stressed the "social and political" advantages of tenuring younger people, who "have different kinds of relationships" with junior faculty...