Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio by bus. Whenever he had an engagement at a strawberry festival or a county fair, he usually managed to slip in through a side entrance, avoid the official greeters and mingle with the crowds, shaking all hands, admiring babies, and earnestly talking politics to individual voters. His common touch made excellent word-of-mouth publicity and swung many a vote. In 1946, when Lausche ran for reelection, he was defeated by 40,000 votes. At least part of his defeat was attributed to the fact that he had stopped attending the marriages, wakes, christenings and other ceremonial gatherings...
Once in the lower atmosphere, the space plane will slow down by circling, and head for some landing field with a very long runway. It will touch at 250 m.p.h., and may use a drag parachute to check its speed on the ground. When the pilot steps out and walks away, he will have passed the longest 20 minutes in the history of manned flight...
...Jeweler's Touch. On the century series production lines, workers need a jeweler's touch to fit parts within supersonic tolerances. A single, one-in. hole in a wing can slow a modern jet by as much as 100 m.p.h. And such skilled manpower is hard to find. Though McDonnell has 14,000 workers at its St. Louis plants, it is still desperately short of skilled manpower. Last week, with new F101 orders coming in, McDonnell sent out calls for another 1,000 engineers...
...couldn't smell or touch...
Botswick said he had received no direct message from Thomson concerning the Bridges speech, but admitted that "somebody at Harvard" had been in touch with him. "I was approached by one of Harvard's Republican alumni who was in liaison, I imagine, with Thomson," Botswick added...