Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ball Games in Battle. The cause of the excitement was a touch football game in which the yellow-shirted Gas Detail was playing the pink-shirted NAPs (naval airplane pushers...
...Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution to beat Fish; Helen Hayes gave the voters a touch of histrionics-on-the-hustings; the hillside folk simply went to the polls. But all of their ballots and all their spirited poetry, and all the opposition of such "outsiders" as Wendell Willkie and Tom Dewey were not enough. The people simply would not rouse...
Always interested in the next new thing, Coningham is in constant touch with aircraft designers, technicians, manufacturers. The next big thing, he says, will be jet-propelled fighters. "They are going to make our present fighters as obsolete as the monoplane made the biplane...
Declared the great La Prensa in its lead editorial: "The gravest and most regrettable error" of anti-U.S. President Ramon Castillo was his muzzling of the press in December, 1941. It put him out of touch with Argentine public opinion, led to the unfortunate consequences from which the nation still suffered. Now, hoped La Prensa, the misunderstandings which conspired against hemisphere solidarity would disappear as the Argentine press recovered its right to express its opinions...
...Crane, former United States Ministers to China, the bells were once the property of the Dana Monastery, in Moscow. Crane offered a set of Russian bells to President Lowell after seeing them, on a trip through Europe, and President Lowell anxious to bless the crimson halls with a touch of the continent accepted the gift...