Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs and artillery blasted his Madrid studio to rubble. His prodigious monument to the leader of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias (an eleven-panel mural containing 140 life-size figures), was destroyed. But the Fascists could never touch Luis Quintanilla the artist.* His drypoints, safely scattered in museums all over the world, continued to speak with the social force-if not the human weight -of Goya's best...
...number of automobiles in use this spring makes the harried pedestrian look to the city for help. Otherwise a mission to McBrides or the Coop will take on all the sport of playing touch-tag with a tank formation...
Into Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
Just among Fronds. The hostel had one important atmospheric touch-there were banana trees in the yard. When a man got orders to "get out and cover the war," he could always get a snap of himself in pith helmet and shorts, grinning bravely amid the banana fronds, to send his home office...
...Coal, No Trains. The railroads would soon feel the touch of paralysis. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was almost out of coal. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad was down to less than two weeks' supply. Unless the mines opened by May 6, there would be a major railroad...