Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shuttling between his 8-ft. desk in the Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...Polish bishop was tried on phony espionage charges, Wyszynski delivered an angry sermon in which he said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...
...Touch with the World. "Modest obscurity" is a phrase that might also describe Wyszynski's life in his own unpalatial episcopal palace in Warsaw at No. 17 Miodowa, unmarked by any emblem except a faded Polish flag. In the two-story, double-winged building, Wyszynski lives austerely with his hale-looking, greyheaded father (in his '80s), his private chaplain, and his secretary. Visitors from outside Poland are welcome (Americans are plied with questions about the speed of U.S. cars and the wonders of television). Wyszynski sees everyone who wants to see him, except reporters. He keeps in touch...
...breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny, even of continuity...
...coach Harvey Love said, it was a rough weekend for Harvard crew. The varsity and JV heavyweights did not even qualify for the finals of the Sprints at Princeton, the Crimson lights again lost to Princeton by two seats at Washington, and to add the final touch, the JV lights lost to Navy by six inches...