Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams batters couldn't touch Dwight's fast ball and his crafty drop. Nine Gold Coasters struck out, and only five reached base, four being walked and one being hit by a pitch...
After tallying once in the second, twice in the sixth, and once more in the seventh, the Terrier pups appropriated three last runs in the top of the ninth. With one out Agganis singled and scored on third baseman Hurley's single. Gayzagian added the final touch with a two run homer, his third extra base wallop, his fourth and fifth runs batted...
Conquests to Come. Three months ago, convoyed by a housekeeper, valet and chauffeur, Berle moved into a sumptuous nine-room bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. There he keeps in touch with Broadway and Hollywood through two phones in each of four rooms. Aside from mellowing him, success has awakened some tony tastes that amuse old acquaintances. He has recently taken to Homburgs, dark, dignified suits, fancier restaurants, and an occasional pose of world-weariness...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
...Tennessee Valley Authority had to touch off 681 tons of TNT before Lect's instruments could feel it, though. The blast ripped out one side of a mountain to supply crushed rock for a TVA dam. Present seismographs, says Leet, have never recorded an atom bomb explosion...