Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little touch of Harry in the night' worked wonders for British morale at Agincourt," said London's Daily Telegraph with Shakespearean whimsy. "The little touch of Harry S. Truman at his press conference yesterday was equally invigorating. It is no discourtesy to President Eisenhower to say that his former commander in chief, more than any other living American, embodies the sparkle and freshness, idealism and energy of the new world...
...have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases (although many a pilot would prefer to risk landing overloaded) is to dump surplus gasoline. To do this, the pilot must turn...
...Opposition. Blacks have criticized the Capricorn Society because they feel that its multiple vote is merely a device to preserve white supremacy; whites who think Capricorn's sponsors are dilettantes out of touch with reality bitterly refer to it as the "Leprechaun Africa Society." To show their determination, members are ready to run for office to get their ideas adopted. The idealists left Lake Nyasa's shores knowing that theirs is an uphill struggle: in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, as the party sheepishly separated to return to segregated life, they were eyed with a mixture of scorn and antipathy...
Winner Prado, 67, a spirited bantam of a man who skillfully combines a patrician manner with the common touch, doubtless got some support from voters nostalgic for his prosperous earlier regime. But the winning edge almost certainly came from a courageous promise that was a political master stroke as well. Two days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown...
Lannan's formula is to reorganize, modernize, diversify. The Milwaukee road, weakest of the so-called "transcontinental" lines (because its lightly traveled track traverses largely underpopulated areas), is tailor-made for his touch. Extending from Chicago west to Omaha and northwest to Puget Sound, it is twelfth on the list of moneymakers; its 1955 net was $9,532,282. But Lannan is betting on a Northwest boom to boom the Milwaukee...