Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to official estimates, there are 45 million Untouchables in India and slightly less than three million in Pakistan. Their touch, their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their...
...Dwight D. Eisenhowers (transfers from Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...will last only until he obtains at least 100 names for his petition. The five-man society sent a letter of approval to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology, thanking him for his donial of the harm done by the owl. (Griscom previously had said the owl didn't touch Yard squirrels...
...society has nearly finished its new movies, "Touch of the Times...
...house decorator has promised to touch up the living room during Christmas vacation. The new look will tie in the living room wallpaper with the anticipated decorations to be done in "shocking pink" Other decorative additions include a pair of curtains for the front doors...