Word: touche
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...Japanese for very close and sultry). I threw that in to add a touch of Oriental mystery...
...Touch of Heartburn. At approximately 4:30 p.m., as the two men approached the eighth hole (their 26th hole of the day. in Denver's 5,280-ft. altitude), the President complained of a little touch of heartburn. "Boy," he said with a grin, "those raw onions are sure backing up on me." But the indigestion-if it was indigestion-seemed minor, and Ike finished the round, carding a flashy 40 (he had shot an 84 on the morning 18). After a quiet dinner at the Doud home that evening, the President retired early. By 10 p.m.-17 hours...
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, the doctor who must prescribe for Britain's slight touch of inflation, was in Istanbul last week to reassure the men of international finance, gathered for the tenth annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. Recently, European bankers have shown an embarrassing lack of confidence in the value of the pound-partly brought on by Britain's faltering financial situation, partly because of rumors that Britain might devalue it. Butler was firm. "We do not contemplate any early move on any-and I repeat any-aspects of the exchange...
...explanation was chiefly that in a brief time Sihanouk had built the Sangkum into a well-oiled political machine, with party committees in every village. Already revered when king, he seized the common touch by barnstorming in a red convertible and scattered his message by sound truck and radio (TIME, Sept...
...beauty of The Kentuckian is not in the raw yarn, but in the loving country touch with which it was homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that...