Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarmed, Harold Stassen sent down the order: step on the gas. Though he kept mum himself, he was working hard behind the scenes, directing every move, writing or editing most of the speeches. With ten days till election, the outcome was touch...
Like the dirty, coal-blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...
...good English prose. A parson's son (his father is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey), he came to TIME via Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism...
...fifth of the salary brackets received almost half the national income, said BAE. Moreover, this same top fifth already held three-quarters of the savings and liquid assets. The bottom 40% had saved only $1 billion during the war. More than 50% having bank deposits decided not to touch their holdings this year except for emergency...
Next day the three survivors-Nelson, Vic Ghezzi and Lloyd Mangrum-played a tight-lipped extra 18-holes, and ended up still tied. They teed off again and it was still touch & go. On the 103rd hole, willowy, wiry ex-G.I. Lloyd Mangrum, 31, of Los Angeles, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, got hot, began shooting birdies. Not even a thunderstorm just before the finish could cool him. The 108-hole totals: Mangrum 428; Nelson and Ghezzi...