Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson-Stevenson primary race was so close (TIME, Sept. 13) that it was still touch & go when the Democratic State Executive Committee met last week to certify the winner. The committee went over the officially counted returns from the state's 254 counties. The votes that tipped the balance came from eight counties in which Parr's influence is especially strong. Parr, who had more than once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return...
...Century's barbershop and secretary, its train-to-city phone, shower bath, and doors that open at a touch were already standard equipment on several other "name" trains. Its new dining car seated fewer passengers than the old two-car arrangement, and placed diners with their backs to the scenery. The new roomettes still forced occupants to protrude into the corridor when pulling down...
...least two touch football leagues and five tennis tournaments are open to the Class of '52 as part of the University's largest peacetime intramural program...
Each Yard house will enter at least one team in the touch football leagues, with the larger dormitories, such as Wigglesworth and Thayer, contributing two or more separate entries...
...inauguration of Paraguay's new President I looked up an old friend of mine to see whether he could brief me on the anti-government side of Paraguay's political situation. We talked for a while and, to prove his points, he promised to put me in touch with the underground...