Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...
Attorney General Bennett refused to touch the racketeering investigation, completed the buck-passing cycle by sending the matter back to New York District Attorney Grain, the 73-year-old Tammany appointee who had declined to have anything to do with it in the first place...
Hardly his hands touch the keys when there springs into beauteous being...
...nightfall the new Government, consisting as yet only of Dr. de Cespedes, wanted some prop more stable than Cuban soldiers, many of whom were frankly on the loose. Ambassador Welles, constantly in telephonic touch with President Roosevelt, abruptly announced that three U. S. destroyers were steaming full speed for Cuba. With relief Provisional President de Cespedes cried, "The order of President Roosevelt sending three American naval ships to Cuba for the protection of American lives and property was issued with my full knowledge and approval. It carries no implication of intervention...
Writing informal history as much as fiction, Author Bromfield does not try to make what he has to say seem like a story. The book is a collection of notes about the people whose lives touch Hallie Chambers, the Colonel's simple guide, "had a thin tough horse and wore buckskin pants . . . and a beaver cap. . . . The Colonel thought that at last he had discovered Jean Jacques' 'natural man'. . . ." Weiler, the innkeeper, told the Colonel and his Jesuit friend, Father Duchesne, about "the young man called Lazare who lived with the Indians but was white...