Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Touch football with a dash of color was the general impression of some two-score early birds and class-cutters who journeyed down to Soldiers Field in the morning mists yesterday to watch the Los Angeles Rams cavort around in their six-tone practice uniforms...
...this can be done with little likelihood of stirring up the dormant claims of half a dozen nations to pie-slices of the frozen waste. But a more innocent-looking, one-ship expedition for the American Geographical Society under Commander Finn Ronne, may touch off international fireworks. Its concerns are meteorology and mineralogy. There is probably gold under the ice cap; there might also be uranium...
...Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
What readers are most likely to see in all these stories are qualities that make for engaging reading rather than great writing: a sure professional touch, quiet sophistication, an easy way with the ways of the world-the qualities of a Continental Somerset Maugham...
...Wood-Ranking committee and of Rankin in particular. The idea of Rankin himself conducting and making the rules for the committee and then not allowing Professor Shapley counsel is a sign that he is afraid of allowing people freedom of expression." Edsell added that his organization would get in touch with the Speaker of the House to oppose the contempt action...