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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...germs with rumors and conclude that it is something far worse. Dwight Eisenhower has had his share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the whisper (planted by his political enemies) went out that he had heart trouble. A slight touch of food poisoning last spring was quickly diagnosed by the dopesters as a stomach ulcer. When he bruised his elbow last August, the story soon got around that Ike was showing signs of falling apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rumortism | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...incomplete passes and costly fumbles don't make Yale a sott touch. A powerful line, which up to last week had given Yale the best defensive record in the country, makes the Dartmouth loss seem more like a cold than cancer. The Yale line was good last year, it is even better now. Few teams have been able to go through it, most, in order to gain, have had to go over it. Bill Beagle, whose thoughtless refusal to kick barefoot has disappointed thousands of spectators completed four touchdown passes last Saturday...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

House athletics yesterday saw two games in the soccer and tackle and touch football leagues. No House could muster a sweep; in fact, turnabouts seemed to be the order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

...touch football Dunster downed Eliot, 32 to 18, while Adams outplayed Leverett to win easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

...freshman touch football contests, Wigglesworth East lost to Thayer Middle 14-42, in an American League encounter, and Massachusetts downed Lionel, 12-6 in a National League game. In a Southern League game, Matthews South defeated Thayer South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 11/4/1953 | See Source »

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