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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn the extent of the tragedy. The toll: 316 dead (267 women & children); 200 missing, probably dead; 2,000 injured. Many of the hurt ones could not be traced because their relatives had dragged them off, not to hospital but to the sacred confluence, in the belief that its touch might heal their suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Where Nectar Once Spilled | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Hugh was the first Jamaican chief executive to touch what is now Haitian soil since Acting Governor Sir Henry Morgan, the respectably retired pirate, was shipwrecked on French Hispaniola 279 years ago. In Sir Hugh's honor, the Foreign Minister put on an elegant ball, and the tall, slim governor gamely accommodated his swooping waltz style to the intricacies of the Haitian meringue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Arrivals & Departures | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette, who doesn't touch the stuff himself, followed an old Iowa tradition by blaming it all on "gambling and speculation." Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Cup That Agitates | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...When we adjourned yesterday evening," said Dulles next day, "I had a sense of complete recall to those days of 1945 when I gained a great admiration for Mr. Molotov's diplomatic skill. I am glad to see that he has not lost his touch. Yesterday Mr. Molotov produced out of the hat rabbits for all of us-peace in Korea, peace in Indo-China, an end to the armaments race . . . the ending of all tensions everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Duel | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Gumshoe Scholar. Proceeding like a scholarly private eye, Wahlgren got in touch with J. A. Holvik, professor emeritus of Norse at Concordia College. Moorhead, Minn. Holvik went to the Ohman farm; which now belongs to Olof's sons, and made a copy of the old man's scrapbook. He also learned that Ohman had owned a Swedish encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Farmer's Fun | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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