Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second informative article is a short history of Ivy Films by Andrew Hunt, containing the news that the makers of "A Touch of the Times" are contemplating a documentary on trucks (sic) for their next effort...
...staff at Bleemfontein keeps in fairly close touch with its parent body at Cambridge. Two or three times a year the South African group sends here a large batch of photographs it has taken...
...spring before that, some Zionist friends at Harvard had interested him in fighting for Israel and put him in touch with a clandestine organization in New York which was recruiting men and shipping them out to Palestine. His family did not want him to go, thinking he had seen enough of war after flying 101 missions over Germany and being listed as missing for two months...
Yamashita was blamed for rape and murder committed in Manila by Japanese naval forces who were trapped and later wiped out by the Americans. It turned out that these forces were not under Yamashita's effective command. He was far away in the hills, and had lost touch with the units responsible for most of the outrages. Yamashita, in fact, reached the Philippines for the first time two days after the U.S. troops had landed at Leyte, and never did succeed in establishing contact with many of his units...
...yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...