Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound - it ran from her left side a little above the waist to a spot near her navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against the corresponding hole in her abdominal wall, so that no contaminating material could touch the vulnerable abdominal lining. Such material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated for the immediate surgical treatment of such an injury." All that remained to be done...
...Druten has written and staged with the tasteful touch that made "Voice of the Turtle" a Broadway sensation. His characterizations in "I Remember Mama" have a human quality that few in the American theatre have achieved: the irresistible simplicity of good, kind, honest people...
Lowell will face Adams today in a season - climaxer. Asked about this grudge battle between the Gold Coasters and Bellboys, the Lowell coach said of his charges, half-seriously, half-humorously, "They won't play touch football like they did against Eliot!" Similar statements came from the Adams board of strategy...
Henry King's direction and Lamar Trotti's scenario are above average, but both dangerously approach the common flag-waving touch. It is the essentially accurate re-creation of history with successful balance of insight and showmanship that makes "Wilson" first-rate. It rests on its merits of candor and taste as a stirring epic of the United States...
After the third sleepless night came some Polish airborne troops as reinforcement. But still it was touch & go with disaster. And for most of the week the weather was so bad that even air-dropped supplies were scarce...