Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Globetrotting British Historian Arnold Toynbee turned up in Manila, and after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this...
...give up hope: a government reclamation project was slowly draining the lagoons that covered its presumed site. When the water receded, the exposed flats showed nothing of interest, but Dr. Alfieri, an old hand at archaeological detective work, waited for nature to add the final, necessary touch...
...minutes, as the surgeon removed the growth and sewed up the wound, Dr. Kroger kept on intoning reassurance to the patient and inducing her to lapse into a deeper hypnotic state. When the operation was over, he alerted her out of it by a pre-arranged signal-a touch on the shoulder. She had no memory of pain, felt no nausea or other discomfort...
...that even on a Monday enough viewers stayed up past midnight to give an impressive 21.1 to Ronald Colman and Greer Garson in Ran dom Harvest. In Chicago WBKB leaped from fourth to first place by launching 740 RKO movies with a showing of Rosalind Russell in The Velvet Touch, and two other stations rushed in fresh Hollywood features of their own. Philadelphia's WFIL led its field late at night by dipping into a vault newly stocked by RKO, M-G-M and 20th Century...
...with a lease man in the coffee shop and told him about my Wise County deal. He mentioned the deal to a Denver friend who then mentioned it in a conversation with an associate in Tulsa on the phone the next day, and the man in Tulsa got in touch with a Chicago bookie, who had put money into oil, and happened to be in Houston. It all didn't take over three days, and the bookie called me in Dallas...