Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unruffled by reports that the Reds planned to make further trouble before the October congressional elections, the new President settled down to run the government with a new, informal touch. The hard-faced bodyguards of Vargas days vanished. Spurning the luxurious palace quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with...
...battle was only beginning. The friends of EDC rallied, and the dispute that had raged in the caucus rooms and Parliament suddenly engulfed all France, and spread outwards in ever-widening circles to touch half the world...
...with experienced racers, Andy explained, his jockeys often have orders to take it easy. Determine, he said, could have won the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs this spring; instead, the little grey colt ran second to Hasty Road. "My boy had instructions not to whip my horse, not to touch him, not to drive him." At Chicago's Arlington Park, when Imbros ran on a sloppy track in the Equipoise Mile, "our instruction was to ease the horse back to dead last as quick as possible because we didn't want to hurt...
Pulling Tony out was another proposition. Near the top he caught on a bulge in the snow wall; he could reach no foothold. He was soaked and cold and tired. Once they got him almost high enough to touch his pack, but when dark came, the men on top gave up. Their strength was gone, and Tony still hung in the crevasse. All they could do was keep on talking. They heard Tony's last words-which no one remembers-some time near midnight...
...would agree that the Lawrence brothers pushed it to a limit where it became almost inhuman-divorced from instinct and passion, too cold for natural comfort, almost too good to be true. It gave T. E., says Sir Winston Churchill in a superb preface to the Home Letters, "that touch of genius which everyone recognizes and no one can define." but simultaneously it placed its possessor beyond the pale. For, says Churchill...