Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to sit on the prestige-weighted Foreign Relations Committee. Instead, the lone Foreign Relations opening was awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson-Kennedy ticket at the Democratic National Convention...
...action on Algeria, argued the French, would touch off a roaring, full-scale revolution that would bathe all of Algeria in blood. Algeria, however, was already pretty thoroughly bathed in blood -18,000 Algerians and more than 3,000 Frenchmen have been killed this year. Last week French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste concentrated both civil and military police powers in the Algiers area in the tough hands of Brigadier General Jacques Massu, who commanded French paratroops in the Suez invasion. "The battle for Algeria," proclaimed Lacoste, "has reached its final phase...
Thirty years later, Dixon's influence on squash in the University is still strong. In 1951, he heard that Coach Jack Barnaby had an unusually strong team which he wanted to take to the Nationals. Dixon got in touch with a few other graduates, and raised sufficient funds to send the players. His support was well rewarded when the varsity, led by Charlie Ufford, won the team title...
...Cleary claimed to have been responsible for a goal which the referee refused to recognize because he figured Bob had kicked it in. "I didn't even touch it," said Bob, audibly and even right-eously. Even! But he did get two assists, and some rabble in the south end of the rink asserted from time to time that so long as Cleary is on the ice, he always gets an assist when a goal is scored. The Boston journalists suggested that Harvard Square be renamed in his honor...
...contrast, The Conquistadors, by French Scholar Jean Descola, lacks the firsthand touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...