touch-tackle

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Examples

• Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.

• “I had a small touch of prison a couple of times,” Mailer writes to Ehrlichman.

• The quote appears on the bronze plaque the players touch before they take the field for home games.

• The former vice president is not known as a soft touch, but for a brief moment in 2011, he seemed to hold Clinton in high regard.

• Too many designers, Nagrani reckons, stop thinking like entrepreneurs and lose touch with their customers.

• The Goliath wouldn't answer; the Dublin said the force was coming off, and we could not get into touch with the soldiers at all.

• He made me think of an old time magician more than anything, and I felt that with a touch of his wand he could transform us all.

• He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

• Thanks to Berthier's admirable system, Bonaparte was kept in touch with every part of his command.

• Tausig possessed this repose in a technical way, and his touch was marvellous; but he never drew the tears to your eyes.