Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Item 4--The touch football league awaits only your backing and it will start off. The games will probably have to be played between 1600 and chow time but it's a great game and this is the season. See Charlie Gould or Ken Mills and voice your approval...
...freshly gashed dueling scar on his cheek; a wolfish but pathetic landlady; Polish pianist; a browbeaten, impecunious professor of mathematics. Out of these Author Porter has carefully built a somber, horrifying picture of a country on the verge of tragedy - a leaning tower ready to fall at the touch of a strong hand...
This modification of the Costa Rican bill of fare has revived a small industry that was nearly killed off by the war. Now Costa Rican markets are selling some 20,000 pounds of turtle meat a week. At first the people of the highlands in the interior refused to touch the stuff. There was a rumor that turtle meat caused leprosy. But that rumor yielded to another: that turtle meat is an aphrodisiac...
...opposite of a backslapper, Crerar has his own way of showing approval: he leans gradually sidewise toward the other man until their shoulders touch. His main social gambit is a bawdy story, diffidently told. He keeps a methodical file of these stories, to which his officers contribute regularly, each story being neatly written out on a piece of paper...
Fantastic carvings and the Oriental grandeur of its appearance contrast with the simplicity of the Colonial red brick by which it is surrounded on all sides, and add a touch of Kiang Province, home of the monument for over a century, to the otherwise austere College Yard. Situated just west of Widener Library, about midway down the length of the building, the white marble structure is well preserved despite...