Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last missionary who had tried to help Okinawa's destitute victims had been deported for meddling. When Aoki arrived, the afflicted were either kept hidden by their families or left on the beaches to starve. Many of them managed to live by creeping into stores, threatening to touch the goods on display unless the storekeeper paid them off with food...
...press conference, and ably fenced questions and answers for half an hour with 100 U.S. and foreign correspondents. When one U.S. reporter asked him about the incident of St. Lawrence Island, Molotov replied: "It was news to me. As soon as I receive any information, I shall get in touch with Mr. Dulles...
...more modern and profits are higher on lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources at a moment when the pressure of growing population is particularly strong; the handing over of all power to an improvised government might touch off an emigration which everyone wishes to avoid...
...buyer can drive off in a new car with little or nothing down, and three-or even five-years to pay. Such practices give conservative dealers the jitters, since the car depreciates faster than it is paid for. They fear that even a temporary slump in employment would touch off a chain reaction of defaults among buyers who have little equity in their cars, thus lose almost nothing by repossession...
Settling & Overflowing. But in old age Picasso is developing a new and airier touch. As charming as anything in the Louvre's show were 14 recent variations on The Women of Algiers, a famous harem picture by Delacroix. The variations, painted in a brief, 64-day period last winter, flung open the shutters of Delacroix's exotic little dream world. Some of the "variations" verged on parodies, both of Delacroix and of Matisse. (Said Picasso to a friend after Matisse died: "I will try to continue his work.") More intriguing to curiosity seekers was another recent work. Picasso...