Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch of nature made the whole House embarrassed. Members whispered nervously to one another. Did the gentleman from Kansas see what the gentleman from Maine saw up there in the gallery? Should someone make a point of order? Hilda Jean Parker had been nursing about five minutes when House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott tapped Evert Parker ominously on the shoulder. Fishing in the pocket of his blue jeans, Father Parker produced not one but two white paste-boards?admission cards from two distinguished Senators, Huey Long of Louisiana and Carter Glass of Virginia...
...knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...
...from each company in the attacking battalion for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline, of the trial, and of the carrying out of the inevitable sentence, is nerve-rackingly exciting. Not the least skilful touch is the placing on the last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these is "a special dispatch to "The New York Times of July 2, 1924, which appeared under this...
...ordered TVA to establish its head office at Muscle Shoals and money was spent reconditioning offices there, Mr. McCarl found that TVA had moved its headquarters to Knoxville where it paid $36,000 a year rent. Then TVA leased telephone lines, hired cars, bought airplanes to keep in touch with Muscle Shoals. Although TVA owned 223 automobiles and light trucks, its bill for hired passenger cars averaged $8,000 a month. In one period 53 TVA-owned cars drove less than 1,000 miles while the hired cars drove 114,000 miles at 7? a mile rental. The cash registers...
...Sadly troubled in mind, Johnny goes walking at night in Golden Gate Park. Out of the lake comes a beautiful girl, mother-naked and with the heart of a child. Her name, for some reason, is Trelia. She talks to Johnny in friendly fashion until he tries to touch her, when she swims away...