Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personal Touch. While the Newton visit gave Ike his best chance to rub shoulders with farm voters, thousands of other lowans got a closehand look at the President during the 24 hours he spent in the state. From Des Moines, where they had flown from Washington Thursday afternoon, Ike and Mamie drove to Boone-Mamie's birthplace-in a bubble-top Lincoln. Ike stood throughout much of the 65 miles, waving to the crowds gathered in the little towns and at the crossroads, flashing his familiar grin, shouting greetings. At Boone, the Eisenhowers spent a quiet evening with Mamie...
Since the beacon on the Empire State was extinguished, says the Audubon Society, no birds have crashed. The revolving lights that march around the building's top seem to be no menace to the birds. The light does not touch them long enough to lead them astray...
Despite the story's carefully hidden sordid blotches-only a romantic musical 100 years hence will entirely erase them-and despite the determinedly sentimental tone ("any woman who has been loved as I have been loved"), a touch of dignity, be it of Windsor or of Baltimore, still shines through. But many a reader may linger longest over the remarkably gentle, paternal letters written to Wallis by Ernest Simpson after the King's abdication. They contain a question Author Windsor must sometimes ask herself: "And would your life have ever been the same if you had broken...
...leaders, attempted before only by Stevenson in 1952 (before the Supreme Court decision), may have some effect in turning the tide of attitude in the South. By daring a most unfavorable reaction, Stevenson has managed to break new ground on the integration problem, even in the midst of a touch-and-go campaign. As yet there has been no similar Republican effort in this direction. Nixon's statement that he is an honorary member of the NAACP seems calculated only to rile a South which still holds itself proud. Certainly Nixon's approach can have no constructive effect...
...blue, green and white apartment on the Left Bank, in place of the bourgeois restrictions of her sedate family home. On warm days when Françoise is not dashing about in her Studebaker, Buick, Jaguar (bought with her first royalty check) or Gordini racer ("It is nice to touch it with your hand"), she can cool off with the gift of an American admirer: an electric hand fan decorated with diamonds and mink...