Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American delegation soon learned that it was not necessary to down a full slug of vodka for each toast at the formal dinners. Sometimes the toast could be drunk in a weak wine, sometimes it was only necessary to touch the glass to the lips. But when there was a "big toast"-to a nation or a chief of state-the glasses had to be drained. Vodka and wine were served at all meals, even breakfast. To make sure there would be enough, the Russians brought 14,000 bottles to Yalta...
...post exchange, where the Army has a gift shop for combat men only, bracelets, pins, scarves, handbags disappeared like doughnuts at a Red Cross club. "Think of it," said Lieut. Rafael V. Munguia, in charge of the wrapping center: "Easter Sunday morning at home . . . with a touch of Paris in every town...
...they were there, close to Coblenz. They had slashed out a corridor north of the Moselle with one of the war's swiftest armor strokes. Behind their tanks the infantry mopped up thousands of prisoners from shredded German divisions. Among them was a befuddled German general. Out of touch with his troops, he had stood on a knoll looking for some sign of them. Finally his binoculars found a large batch of Germans. He hurried over to find that they-and he-were prisoners...
...Hampton Institute in Virginia, who in 1939 deeply impressed artists with a book offering a new theory about The Nature of Creative Activity. Professor Lowenfeld explains that visuals are people who think of objects primarily in terms of what they see; hapticals, in terms of the sense of touch and kinesthetic (muscular) sensations...
...visual feels lost in the dark, has difficulty recognizing objects by sense of touch, but excels in visualizing details. A haptical, though no less imaginative than a visual, tends to think in more abstract terms, is better at mechanical jobs, has an acute sense of the bodily results of his behavior (e.g., a haptical pilot is more sensitive to turns in flight...