Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Large beast," sniffed Mme Leontine. "Are you an American that you can waste money on things like that? It is dangerous, nothing will persuade me to touch...
...traditional postures of correct fencing, his back was always stiff, his knees usually bent, he gave an exhibition at the New York Athletic Club. His opponents were Clovis Deladrier, onetime military champion of Belgium, now instructor at Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes...
...athletes out of a trust fund, and other evils (TIME, June 3). The committee did not remove the individual suspensions of eleven star Iowa athletes who had been named as receiving benefits of the fund. Said the Daily lowan: "Iowa City received the tidings without enthusiasm and with a touch of skepticism...
Candidates for the Editorial Board will be required to submit at least one editorial each day. They will be expected to keep in close touch with current events...
...none of Henri. Proud of his English, he could not make himself understood in London when he wanted to buy a jar of jam. His books were not successful; the publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony but seemed to some people like treachery. Though he was a conscientious consul, he was perfectly cynical about politics, which never excited him. He died of a stroke on a Paris streetcorner...