Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most news in court. "Did you know any agents of the Nazi Gestapo?" asked the prosecutor, who was trying to prove that the P.O.U.M. was not really Marxist but Fascist. "No, I did not know any of the Gestapo," said Revolutionist Gómez, adding with the authentic Spanish touch, "but if I had known one I would have killed...
...attempt to put Yardling intramural athletics on a permanent basis after the experimental program of tennis and soft ball last spring, a Freshman athletic council has been set up. A touch football league will get into action this week...
...Daladier-opposed by the Reds and deserted by the Pinks-won only because the remainder of the Chamber, the Right, voted "Oui" with his Radical Socialists (who are moderates). He was considered to have emerged from the debate as head of a new coalition broadly Middle Class, with a touch of French Aristocracy...
...communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night keeping U. S. listeners in touch with Europe...
Pensively the Vagabond flicked a key of his Old Underwood. Would it still be able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when...