Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both from President Eisenhower and from familiar White House sources, they groused to one another that Ike's place during a new Middle East flare-up was in Washington, not Georgia. At the White House the President would have been available for National Security Council briefings, in closer touch with diplomatic and military aides, in a position to contribute to the give-and-take of policymaking. Countering this was an obvious accomplishment: from Augusta nothing that should have been done appeared to be left undone...
...painter, Mi Fei kept his best work for his friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone...
...January the Christian Century began a four-part series on U.S. Christian cults and soon began to regret it. Author Marcus Bach, writer on offbeat religions (Strange Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...
...Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. system with huge underwater field (estimated reserves: 1.7 trillion cu. ft.) off Louisiana. But company's customers are howling because Tennessee Gas agreed to pay record price of 22.4? per 1,000 cu. ft., considerably above average rates, and gas users fear it will touch off rise in prices...
...Most complex of the additional senses, with more paraphernalia in the brain than even the sense of sight, is No. 12, proprioception or position sense. Test it thus: "Close your eyes and slowly lift your arm. Although you are able to feel no touch sensation, still you can sense your arm's changing position in relation to the rest of your body...