Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would that be a solution? It would be terrifyingly simple. The proponents of such a preventive war (another phrase for it was "anticipatory retaliation") even gave their argument a specious touch of idealism. If a world government is the only way to peace, the argument ran, then a final, coldly calculated war is the quickest way to achieve...
...regular touch with Washington. Each morning he slipped away to the telephone for an up-to-the-minute briefing on the State Department's incoming cables. What he heard last week was the succession of hard facts which precipitated the President's call for universal military training and selective service, his plea for speed...
...Famous Men. A rancher insisted on speaking to the general, to tell him Billy was a great guy. Billy explained that he decided to get in touch with his brother only because he would soon be 65, and it would look bad "if Pat Hurley's brother turned up on the old age pension." Why hadn't he written before? Said Billy: "My brother is a famous man, and I am nothing...
...doesn't matter what you do," say the amiable people of Brensham, "so long as you don't frighten the horses." No horse could ever be frightened by Author Moore, who rides the reader through fairyland "with the magic touch of one who has been there himself...
...candidate was young, chubby, glad-handing Frederic Walter Harris, a successful businessman (food products). His slogan: 'The thing to do to industry is to humanize it, not nationalize it." He kept the number of his own employees down to 700; above that figure he felt that the human touch was lost...