Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From what newsmen could pick up afterward, Jimmy Byrnes saw no danger of an immediate war with Russia. But he was afraid Russia's policies might touch off an "incident" that would get out of hand, or might create such animosities that war would eventually be inevitable. He had tried to persuade the Russians that they needed friendly peoples-rather than friendly governments-in their neighbor countries...
...game was touch and go until the score stood at 18-all midway in the second quarter. Then the Buckeyes took over, surging ahead to a 26-20 half-time lead which they never lost...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
...left St. Louis with a touch of bronchitis, tried to live quietly en route. But, boarding his plane in New York, he said he had been treated so well there that he did not know "whether we should go to Rome or stay here." In Rome he shunned as many functions as possible, felt too weak to join the other newly hatted cardinals in their prostration of humility before St. Peter's altar...
...Contact," a Brooks House program that enables Harvardmen in the armed forces to keep in touch with their classmates, is still maintained as a transition service, while the wartime blood donor organization has been converted to supply Cambridge hospitals instead of the Red Cross...