Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...
...baseball, no one could touch the Manila Dodgers-thanks mainly to the strong right arm of Pfc. Kirby Higbe. After the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher shut out the Marianas All-Stars, 11-0, his team took the title with a ragged...
...Sunday-evening papers, did not learn that De Gaulle had quit until an enterprising owner of a mimeographing machine got out a handbill with the news. Parisians fought for it at two francs a copy. Next day, Soir-Express headlined De Gaulle's departure with a touch of skepticism. It said...
...President climbs obediently onto this contraption, puts his feet into straps, and, grunting as loudly as any man, bends down twelve times to touch his toes. This done, he splashes up & down the pool with his friends, comes out puffing, catches his breath while sitting under a sun lamp...
Global Merit. For the trucemakers, and for China, it had been a touch-&-go week. Their talks opened at General Marshall's residence, the Yu Gardens, also wryly known as Failure House because it had lodged other, unsuccessful U.S. missions...