Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position to defy Congress and make his assault on the new law by crippling the nation's economy. But the Taft-Hartley law apparently could not touch him. With the end of the Smith-Connally Act and the return of the mines to private owners, the miners argue, they would have neither contract nor employer. Until Lewis signed a new contract, the miners would simply be men who had just decided not to work for a while...
...Congress was still unimpressed. Senator Taft had already gone on record against the bill. Senator Vandenberg would concede no more than "an open mind." Even House leaders thought the bill unsound, figured that this was no time to ship away U.S. guns and powder, that to do so might touch off a string of Latin American revolutions anyway...
Mossman draws the line at rewriting Beethoven and Bach. Says he: "Beethoven can be adapted, but I don't like to - it's so perfect." With the air of a man piously renouncing a chance for a fast buck he adds: "I'd never touch Bach. There are a couple of themes in the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat -but I wouldn't touch them...
Behind the Century's editorial "we," consistent readers have come to recognize the Morrison touch: a subtle blend of scholarship, sweet reasonableness and hard-punching prose. But Dr. Morrison attributes the rise of the Century to no one man. Editorial conferences, he says, are always "a highly integrated collective mind" engaging in "an informal continuum of conversation...
Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...