Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original prospectus, TIME announced that RELIGION would be one of the regular news sections of the magazine. Said the prospectus: "Whether or not they find the subject intrinsically interesting, men recognize the necessity of keeping in touch with the religious life of the world, because, to the majority of Americans and to the vast majority of the population of the earth, religion is a matter of major importance...
...given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
Finally, the government thought it had an airtight, tamperproof case. The 17 went on trial in a bleak, whitewashed room where the only ornament was a faded portrait of Franco on one wall and the only touch of color was the red plush of the judges' chairs. The accused had six defense attorneys, headed by an able lawyer named Augustin Lacort. The prosecutor read his charges and introduced 17 confessions. Then the presiding judge turned to the first defendant, a worker named Juan Grajales...
Playwright Jean Kerr, 30, with her husband Walter, 40, the New York Herald Tribune'?, drama critic, wrote the 1949 revue, Touch and Go. This season she contributed two sprightly sketches to John Murray Anderson's Almanac. A tall brunette with a gift of gag, she has a pretty, animated face and four small boys (aged one to eight) who are animated all over...
Taboo. In Kyoto, Japan, Yukitoki Yakigawa, president of Kyoto University, summed up in a speech to the graduating class: "My final warning to you is ... never touch a drink paid for by others. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks...