Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Columnist Gold, TIME Reader Randall did get in touch with him a few days later, not to report discovery of the "lasting peace," but to say that after the column appeared, so many of his friends had kidded him about his reading habits of TIME that he actually peeked at the current issue. His reaction: What a wonderful preview of the future...
...Israel, for many years one of the most widely known Associated Press men in the South, was then a member of its Atlanta staff. When word came that the mob was assembling, Israel set sail for the scene with this parting admonition: "Fellows, if you want to get in touch with me, I'll be at the so-and-so drugstore at 9 o'clock, but if you telephone, for God's sake don't ask for Israel. Ask for Mr. O'Leary...
...McCullough and his fellow foresters took to the new ideas, thousands of neo-druids-conservationists of the old touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...
Mild Dose. Things looked so good that the Treasury Department decided to try something it has not dared touch since 1953. Secretary George Humphrey announced that holders of $2.6 billion worth of 2⅞ bonds maturing next month will have the choice of exchanging them for short-term notes or a new 4O-year, 3% bond, the longest-term U.S. obligation since a 1911 issue to help finance the Panama Canal. Unlike the famed 3¼% 30-year issue of 1953, which was attacked as too drastic a credit tightener and soon fell below par, the new 40-year bond...
Hangmen, pleads Author Duff, are widely underrated: they are really artists. The good hangman must not only have a sharp eye and a clever touch; he must have personality and good stage presence, must feel at home with any class of people, and should be "capable of being the guide, philosopher and friend of whomsoever he must hang for us." In particular, Duff sings the praises of 19th century Hangman James Berry, who calculated precisely the length of rope needed to break the prisoner's neck with pulling the head off. Berry expressed this in a brilliant and still...