Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less preparation than it takes to get a family of four off on a beach expedition, Her Majesty's Government sets out to fire a rocketship past the pull of earth's gravity, and at the same time touch off the world's first T-1 bomb, which is too big to be exploded on earth. A girl reporter (Lois Maxwell, about the only structurally sound object in Satellite) stows away on the unguarded vessel...
Professional Touch. In Storrs, Conn., after hunting a golf ball in a poison-ivy patch and getting a severe case of poisoning on both arms, Dr. Harriet Creighton swallowed her pride, presided as scheduled over the golden jubilee meeting of the Botanical Society of America...
Steele never lets his historic musings make him forget the present. He has the battlefields cased for available telephones and keeps in touch with White House Press Headquarters in the converted basketball court at the Gettysburg Hotel-in case Neighbor Eisenhower makes any news...
...diary, in effect, showed that Makarios and Grivas were in touch, asking each other for help, and in general behaving like separate but related figures in a nationalist independence movement. Far from proving the unfitness of Makarios as someone to negotiate with, argued the Manchester Guardian, the evidence that
Then the count ordered a diamond neck lace worth $48,700 from a Vichy jeweler. The jeweler took the precaution of calling the count's bank. The count has little or no money, said the bank. The jeweler got in touch with the police. The count buzzed swiftly out the chateau gates in the station wagon and vanished...