Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd once blew up when he heard one of his lieutenants boasting about having tapped state employees for campaign contributions. "Pay every one of those people back," he snapped. "I'll make it up to you out of my own pocket." Generally, Byrd rules with a soft, unobtrusive touch. Democratic Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond accurately describes the organization as "a club, except that it has no bylaws, constitution or dues. It's a loosely knit association, you might say, among men who share the philosophy of Senator Byrd." It is also a fact that...
...taks), v.t. [OF. taxer, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply.] -Webster...
...scoffing at Aramburu's ban on military candidacies, has been cheering on a dissident, unassigned general named LeÓn Bengoa as a prospect for presidential elections late next year. The mass firings gave this group a brief surge of hope: Bengoa and some cronies quickly tried to touch off an army uprising...
...says 'Bobby, you knew from the beginning I didn't want to go back to small time. I never asked to do this show.''' In the true show-must-go-on spirit, ex-Hoofer Winchell went on as scheduled -if a touch subdued-next night, contributed to the merriment by goofing across the scene in an oversized fedora presented to him by a pair of guest stars...
Dudding said later that he could not attend the meeting because of illness. "Members of the council," he explained, "felt that the CRIMSON had not given note to freshman activities." For instance, he added, the freshman touch football game with Yale was reported in the Boston Globe but not in the CRIMSON...