Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tonight's touch-off with Rutgers puts the squad to the toughest test of the season excepting the Yale meet, and the Scarlet outfit should prove as rough a customer in the water as they did this fall on the gridiron...
...Varsity meet was probably the easiest of the year, seven of the bouts being won without a touch. Freshmen, on the other hand, faced the toughest opposition of the season in Worcester, the only team able to best them. Tying in Epee, the Yardlings lost decisively in both Foil and Saber...
...right to state their position in a labor dispute. It would protect craft unions and minorities from the past tendencies of NLRB, which often ruled in favor of big industrial unions. Thus the bill would "strengthen, not weaken, the rights of employees," said Ball. But it would not touch labor's right to organize, the cherished and long-fought-for right which the Wagner act insured...
...Louis that Harlem knew. Away from his own people, he was always conscientious about being a credit to his race. Harlem knew him as a man sometimes angry and sometimes moody-but also a fellow who could relax, laugh his head off, throw expensive parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once...
...board denied that T.W.A. intended to give up its international routes. But it would be touch & go to keep flying until Hughes wangled the $40,000,000 RFC loan he was after (TIME, Feb. 24). Meanwhile, Hughes had promised to put $10,000,000 into the line, had turned over half of it. But in the first three months of this year, T.W.A. stands to lose some $3,300,000. And T.W.A. would probably not get the second $5,000,000 from Hughes until May. No flier liked to come quite that close to the trees...