Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...
...stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death could touch him in one way only. Upon realizing the imminence of defeat at Waterloo, he deliberately put himself in the way of bullets, hoping to defy fate...
...final touch of irony is added by the fact that even if some ones does eventually get elected mayor, it will be a hollow victory. For Cambridge has a City Manager type of government, commonly known in Massachusetts as Plan E. The Manager is the persons who really runs the city; the mayor glories in his title and draws down an extra thousand shekels a year...
Headlined "Democratic spirit lives on at Yale," the article didn't touch on leftist groups until the very end, when it mentioned without comment a Socialist Club and a new-default AYD branch...
Veritas Films makes its screen debut tonight at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House when the initial scenes of "A Touch of the Times" are shown to club members...