Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to be a great man? Do you want to follow Chiang to the death? [Formosa] is going to be liberated. Chiang can flee to South America, but where will you be? World war will not come. The Americans cannot protect you. So have courage. Get in touch with us. We will wait to the last minute. Please come ..." Up to last week, Nationalist leaders professed to be amused by these appeals, although they were more concerned about the effect among Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces (some of whom have received individual messages), and security measures were...
...Touch Her. Grace Kelly, with the lovely blonde hair, chiseled features, blue eyes and an accent that is obviously refined, is a startling change from the run of smoky film sirens and bumptious cuties. Said one Hollywood observer: "Most of these dames just suggest Kinsey statistics. But if a guy in a movie theater starts mooning about Grace, there could be nothing squalid about it; his wife would have to be made to understand that it was something fine-and bigger than all of them. Her peculiar talent, you might say, is that she inspires licit passion." From...
...Time to Wait. Except in private reports to top United Nations delegates, Hammarskjold told very little of his conversations with Chou. "I achieved what I had hoped to achieve," he said. "We remain in touch . . . The door has been opened and can be kept open." The door to what? To "an attitude, let us call it, of playing fair...
...Talbott joined W. & L. ("Where my parents shopped when I was a kid. I sort of liked the store") and never left. Starting as a boys'-clothing salesman, he missed few rungs as he climbed, fitted in well with W. & L.'s character: dignified, with a folksy touch. Talbott predicts a 2½% to 3½% boost in total U.S. retail sales this year over 1954's booming over-the-counter business. But he cautions: "I'm a little afraid of complacency...
Novelist Nathan is that literary oddity, a lineal descendant of James Branch Cabell. Their type of gently spoofing, satirical fantasy is not much in vogue these days, but Author Nathan is an expert practitioner of the genre. His touch is light, his fish are intelligent, and his dogs and dragons are shaggy...