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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of other colors could roll in yellow mud and do almost as well. They were also useful as sacrifices, and were believed to have important medicinal powers. A Xolo's temperature is 104° F., and his skin, bare of insulation, feels hot to the touch. These properties made him useful as a living hot-water bottle, and he harbored no more fleas than if he were made of rubber. When Dog-Fancier Wright began to study the hairless-dog situation, he found Mexico full of peculiar dogs, more or less hairless, and of various shapes and sizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Dog | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp of a rangy mind not to be fobbed off with commonplaces. To get the feel of Venice, she proceeds not by touch, but by touchstones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Floating City | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...other scheduled touch game, Winthrop vs. Pierson College, was forfeited when Pierson failed to field a team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Downs Elis | 11/24/1956 | See Source »

...Touch football, Winthrop vs. Pierson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Events | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...Touch Football, Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Events | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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