Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advice. Under a Norway maple, Dewey talked to reporters while Warren nodded approvingly. Dewey thought the situation in Berlin was "grave," said he was keeping "in close touch" through his foreign adviser, John Foster Dulles. Whom did he think the Democrats would nominate? Dewey fixed the reporter with his brown eyes, smiled slowly, and said: "I never give advice to the opposition...
Egypt's King Farouk, who loves flashy cars (he owns a flock of red & black limousines), planned to add a utilitarian touch to his collection: he ordered twelve red jeeps, four for general work around the palace grounds, eight equipped with chrome bumpers, red leather seats, white metal wheels and fire sirens, to escort his personal...
...Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Some rival practitioners in remedial reading believe that Dr. Fernald puts too much emphasis on the sense of touch, though admitting that her method has its advantages for many children. Her rivals are inclined to attribute her successes not so much to her method as to her gifts as a teacher...
...story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...