Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clad naval cadets, red-trousered regulars. Basque Miquelitos with pantaloons and scarlet berets, the khaki-clad Foreign Legion, Moorish cavalry in white bournouses, and the yellow-belted, shiny-hatted guardia civil. Even the sappers joined the parade, proudly carrying pontoons and bridge parts. The air force added a final touch. Squadrons of planes flew overhead scattering 400,000 copies of the new Constitution over the city...
...high-power organization," with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker who controls the market from his country estate, or the president who starts giant turbines two thousand miles away by a touch on a telegraph key. The speeding fire engine, the pursuing police patrol, or the fleeing armored car are alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment...
...keenly fought touch-football game on Soldiers Field on Saturday, the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity of Harvard, winner of the intra-fraternity touch-football tournaments for the last four years, suffered a defeat at the hands of Psi Upsilon, the champions of Brown University. The Brown team displayed speed and strategy and overcame the Sigma Alpha Mu defense, scoring an 18 to 6 victors. The Harvard touchdown was scored by Arthur Bloom tGB, on a long forward pass which he snared on the 20-yard line...
Professor Nordal, who holds the chair of Iceland Literature in the University of Iceland, will touch on the development of the prose legends and chronicles, to which he has devoted years of special research. While studying for his Doctor's Degree in Copenhagon, he published numerous works on the Sagas of St. Olaf and other medieval Norse prose writings...
...fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith.' ... So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no apology for 'contact...