Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black as his country's great liberators, and like them a military man. He began his career as a cadet in the U.S. Marine-trained army, and by 1950 was a colonel and a power in the country. When President Dumarsais Estime lost the democratic touch and headed toward dictatorship, Colonel Magloire set up a military junta and ousted him. Then by direct popular vote, he was elected President. His strong regime has brought comparative stability; he has launched a $40 million Five Year Plan, including a small-scale TVA project in the Artibonite Valley to shore up Haiti...
...began with the ceremonial lighting of a fire. Soon the Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...
...individual's attitude toward money, whether healthy or not, is usually determined early in life, said Dr. Kaufman. If it is unhealthy, it may touch off a variety of psychosomatic illnesses, such as headaches, anxiety states, hysterical paralysis, panic reactions, depression, or disorders of the digestive system, heart and lung function, or muscular control...
...able to devise had ever drawn this patient even that far out of her shell. Soon she will stand with others in a ring around the dancers, jangling her tambourine. At first she will not keep time, but gradually she will pick up the beat. She will be in touch once more with those who want to help...
...Dolven, the captain, from Willmar, Minn. has what Wilson terms "probably the best touch on the ball of any freshman I've ever had." He has amassed a -point average with his terrific jump shot and his ability to drive equally well to the right or to the left...