Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This shot went home, since British Socialists hate & fear Nazis even more than they do Fascists. The solution proposed by Mr. Lansbury, however, distinctly lacked the Nelsonian touch. He urged his countrymen to remember that they are Christians and face the fact that the Empire has won more overseas territory than His Majesty's Government always know what to do with. Proposing once again his favorite project to "call a World Conference to redistribute resources on a fair basis among all nations," Christian Socialist Lansbury cried: "Britain is the greatest Imperialist power in the world. The call which Christ gave...
...over me. I kiss his ring. I touch his hand extended. I prolong the touch a second. I wish I might never have to wash my right hand again. It seemed to me the next most beautiful thing to seeing Jesus Christ Himself. The Pope passes to the Bronx lady to my right...
...officer of the University you become one of a group with unlimited responsibility. You are in the forefront in the development of manhood. You guide the youths who in their turn inherit the position of leadership. It is up to you to keep in touch with these students--to know what they do and what they think. They have their own particular tendencies and the smart man is he who can direct the natural force and not curb nor oppose it. But first he must understand the students...
...sensed that last week was the week. The fumes of adjournment, like the fragrance of a steaming cup of coffee, ascended into his nostrils, and he was the essense of amiability as he kept business shuttling over his desk in anticipation of the pleasurable moment when the cup would touch his lips, when the first session of his second Congress would pass into history, having given him virtually everything he asked, denied him nothing important save the World Court...
...penetrated 30 miles in less than two hours. One of the brigades on the road passed a given point in six minutes. Best of all from the standpoint of war, in which more battles are lost by ignorance than are won by good generalship, the division commander was in touch the whole time by radio or telephone with every unit of his command...