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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch our independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEAR EAST: Political Simoon | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beastly Behavior | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...faces of the three virtual nobodies, "typical Nazis," and of the collaborationist Russian, a "miserable weakling," who stand accused. It shows the hideous photographs and testimonials of the atrocities, or kinds of atrocity,* to which the accused plead guilty. Even more overwhelming are shots of bereaved women as they touch and caress the wounds and the frozen feet of their dead; or the restrained but colossal grief and passion for retribution in the faces of the men & women in the audience as they react to the German secret field policeman's admission that he is responsible for the deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...would the fair sex be excluded from this paradise of light and beauty. "My plant," asserts the architect, "would definitely have women. In this war they have proved themselves a great boost to morale of the workers. They add a touch of beauty to any plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOGNER PLANS UTOPIAN FACTORIES FOR NATION | 6/1/1945 | See Source »

...direction was distinguished if not entirely modern. The parting of the players into two lines, as they came down the rounding stairs at the close, was a most happy touch, and by no means the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/29/1945 | See Source »

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