Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 14 minutes Cape Canaveral lost radio touch. The nose cone was plunging into the atmosphere at the end of its flight, and as usual the hot trail of ionized air that re-entry produces blocked off radio waves...
Bake the Cookies. Increased competition is putting new emphasis on time-and-labor-saving machinery. Last week's delegates looked over a cooky-making machine that turns out up to 350 dozen cookies an hour, an automatic change dispenser and easy-touch cash register manufactured by National Cash Register Co.. and a revolving turntable for checking out and bagging groceries...
...tried a crossword puzzle, listened to the news on TV. chatted about events with such faithful visitors as President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter, played, backgammon with his wife Janet. But as his dosage of painkilling sedation was increased, he fell more and more out of touch, slept long and deeply...
...overcharge on the state purchase of gardening machinery. Jones got to Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill casting a theatrical illusion of life around the idea that life is illusion...