Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest, was 90 years old at his death (not 98, as the King James version has it); Samuel, whose mother pledged him to the Lord's service for "all the days of his life," was thereupon enrolled as one of the Nazarites, and as such, Samuel might never touch strong drink or cut his hair...
What is the solution? Suggests Author Gibbings: Let the householder demand a home that expresses his own tastes. What is needed is "the remembrance of a living room filled with warmth and comfort, a bedroom that was enfolding and secure, the touch of a baluster, the morning light in the window...
...Magic Touch. White's decisive action impressed most people in the railroad business, who had known him as a straight-talking but reserved individual with a solid record of railroading behind him. The son of Dutch immigrants, he started out as an Erie Railroad clerk when he left the Ridgewood, N.J. high school, became a division superintendent by the time he was 30. Eleven years later, in 1938, the Virginian Railway hired him away and made him a vice president. In 1941 he moved into the presidency of the ailing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, cut down heavy overhead costs...
...Soft Touch. That is what Abbé Pierre has been trying to do for a long time. The fifth of eight children of a wealthy Lyons silk manufacturer, Henri Antoine Grouès at 18 signed his inheritance over to charity and entered a Capuchin monastery. Eight years later tuberculosis forced him to give up the rigors of monastic life, and he was assigned as a secular priest to the diocese of Grenoble...
...young couple and a baby who had just been evicted and had nowhere to go. Abbé Pierre bedded them down in his ramshackle house in a run-down Paris suburb. In no time, the word got around that the "abbé with the beard" was a soft touch. His house became headquarters for the homeless...