Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially equipped to perform, and our request-fulfillment batting average is pretty good. Recently, for example, we have suggested the clinic best fitted to handle a case of Hodgkin's disease; supplied the addresses of public citizens who move around too fast for friends to keep in touch with them; forwarded a list of appraisers to a Netherlands reader with a collection of rare coins to sell (he hoped that the proceeds would provide an education for his children); offered what guidance we could to discharged veterans faced with the exciting prospect of a college education they could...
Fourteen months after Germany's collapse the nations are still fiddling with the relatively easy issues on the periphery. In the center of the puzzle is a great hole which this Paris conference is not supposed to touch. The hole might be expressed as: what to do about Europe? Molotov hinted at the Russian answer last fortnight-an eventual Russo-German alliance which would dominate Europe. The West's reaction was a stiffening attitude and a move to unite the western zones of Germany under democratic auspices...
...stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
...Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
...mystic's hunger for communion with God that gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept in her private journal...