Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear." This statement is absolutely untrue. I was in Geneva, and there were no such incidents. Agents of this service had no need to approach any spectator, and did not touch anyone...
...briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
...flamboyant journalism became sensational not only about sex ("LAW CAN'T TOUCH ME"-BABY'S FATHER) and crime (MOTHER SLAYS BABE IN WOODS TO MAKE WAY FOR LOVER), but about the most important national and international news as well. For example, more in the interest of slam-bang headlines than from political conviction, Britain's popular dailies outdid each other the minute the U.S. made the announcement in March 1954 of the destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb. HELL BOMB, HORROR BOMB, and other black-scare headlines filled every Page One, along with such articles...
...acted by Umberto Silvestri, and his howls of frenzy at the loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must not desert them any longer...
...proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...