Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomat," repeated Agent Coward firmly, and pressed on: "I [have] interviewed 'Lion' . . . established successful contact with 'Glory,' [have] not yet been able to get into touch with 'Triumph' j) "What the bloody hell are you talking about?" Brooks roared back...
...seat for the party, O'Mahoney will have no trouble getting the nomination. But the election will be a different matter. O'Mahoney's opponents are sure to charge that the former Senator, who stayed in Washington to practice law after he was defeated, has lost touch with Wyoming. The probable Republican nominee, Congressman-at-large William Henry Harrison, is a proven vote getter; in 1952 he polled 76,161 votes, an alltime Wyoming record. Prognosis on Wyoming's U.S. Senate race in November: close...
...notably by bombing Guatemala City's Matamoros Fort. Peurifoy agreed heartily with Castillo Armas' action. The ambassador had learned that under a cover of vocal antiCommunism, the doublecrossing Diaz was letting Arbenz' Red advisers run to safety. Diaz was clearly no change. Peurifoy got in touch with Monzón, known as an outspoken antiCommunist...
...Rubles. Late in 1936, according to Hoettl, German intelligence heard that Tukhachevsky was planning an army revolt against the Soviet dictator and his regime. Heydrich persuaded Himmler and Hitler that they should tip off Stalin, and thus touch off a purge that would gut the Soviet high command. Stalin bit, even paid 3,000,000 rubles for the forged bait, and in the trials of 1937, purged Tukhachevsky and all his confederates. The rubles, says Hoettl in an ironic footnote, were counterfeit; the first German agent who spent them in Russia was promptly arrested...
Booked Until September. From his great paneled office in the Administration Building, Compton ran his campus with a firm but informal hand. He turned out some 300 articles on everything from thermionics to spectroscopy, helped found the American Institute of Physics, kept in constant touch with brother Arthur Holly Compton (who won the Nobel Prize and became chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis), brother Wilson Martindale Compton (who served as president of the State College of Washington), and sister Mary (who married the president of Allahabad University in India). Profoundly patriotic, he was a constant commuter to Washington, served...