Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest rally since the 1945 Labor victory. The palace, a huge pile of yellowed brown and grey stone given by a grateful Parliament to the first Duke of Marlborough, loomed impressively amid the green of flawlessly kept lawns, woods, pastures and ponds. The afternoon was perfect, with just a touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows, acrobats, bicycle races and, of course, cricket...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...
...terrorists had added a distinctive touch; they had booby-trapped one of their victims. When searchers cut down Martin's body, it touched off a contact mine set by the Irgun. His body was blasted to nothingness, Paice's was mutilated, a British officer was wounded...
...Hocking was no more anxious than Kent Cooper to shout for the law. But he felt sure that if society-or the press itself-limited "the liberty to degrade," it would be doing a favor to the offenders as well as to itself. Lest his idea of a "light touch of government" sound too frightening to the press, Hocking drew an analogy to another kind of freedom which submitted to self-discipline and gained by it: "There is nothing freer, in our age, than the inquiry of science. Yet no one is free to be a scientist...
...store mushroomed into a chain of seven with the help of his folksy stunts. He held annual breakfasts for grandmothers, sponsored school essays and let winners come to dinner with Bob Herberger and boss one of his departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores...