Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border between Russian Siberia and Jap-held Manchuria is 2,100 miles long, much of it trackless country designed by nature for frontier incidents. Tokyo and Moscow reported some 2,500 such clashes between 1931 and 1942; any one of them would have been enough to touch off a war if either nation had been in the mood...
...student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time (51.3 seconds...
...reduced to 1%, the uproar went on. Many a businessman joined, fearing the law might prove a wedge for special taxes on other businesses. But the legislature passed the bill. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville hemmed, hawed, called for public hearing, finally decided not to touch the red hot document. Last week, after the lapse of the period allowed for veto, it became law without his signature...
Drama and Corn. Patton the General is also Patton the Actor. Showmanship is instinctive in him. Like all practiced actors he can manage a deft touch of corn or a flight of oratory. He fits his act to his audience's mood. Example : his greeting to a Negro battalion arriving at his battle front-"I don't give a damn what color you are so long as you get out there and kill those sons of bitches in the green suits...
Agnes DeMille has, however, put on a spectacular array of terpsichorean wizardry ranging from a classical rendition of a hornpipe to an example of modern dancing which is beyond doubt one of the best seen this season. Again the "Oklahoma" touch appears in Anabelle Lyon, who is a copy of Joan McCracken...