Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals tossed around during the warmup period of the campaign, two touch directly on the fundamental issue of U.S. security. These are Adlai Stevenson's urgings that 1) the U.S. take the lead in ending H-bomb tests, and 2) the U.S. take steps to end the draft. Last week President Eisenhower replied in two prepared statements. Excerpts...
...joined the Phi Kappa debating society, but there was a difference in their styles. Campus audiences remembered Gene's chewing tobacco while he declaimed, pausing periodically to spit with wondrous accuracy into a nearby potbellied stove. They remember Herman because he always brought along a claque to touch off appropriate applause for his important points...
Winthrop shut out Lowell, 34 to 0, while Eliot downed Dunster, 21 to 7, in their first Interhouse touch football league games on Thursday...
...President Camille Chamoun what were the prerequisites for Arab-Israeli peace. The President frowned and said that Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov had somewhat absently asked the same question that very morning before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded him with questions about U.S. foreign policy, morals and politics. And soon afterwards, a Calcutta editor...
...simple. A colored lithograph, drawn by the artist on a flat stone or plate, can be cranked off by hand press, then signed and numbered to produce as many "originals" as the artist wants. The price drops accordingly, but each impression equally represents the artist's direct touch and workmanship...