Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word spread through Tyneside's grimy dockland that Cwiklinski-Captain Jan, some called him-had gone ashore to see a movie, The Cruel Sea, and then got in touch with the local Polish colony. The ship's medical officer was gone, too. Last week Britain's Home Secretary confirmed the news: the ship's doctor and Captain Jan, holder of the Gold Cross of Merit for "outstanding service" to the Polish Communist regime, had separately asked for political asylum in Britain, and it had been granted...
...thin that the pilots had to take in their oxygen under pressure to get it into their lungs. Working 90-odd controls with the light-fingered touch of master watchmakers, the pilots glanced now & then at the dozens of dials and flashing instrument lights that might warn of trouble, while they searched the sky for MIGs. Suddenly, from far below, came a glint of silver...
Parties are a Kindelberger specialty; last week he cooked up a dinner for 60 (chicken in wine, rice, salad, and bread "with just a touch of garlic"). But Dutch always tries to get to bed early; loves to lie there reading magazines and listening to his bedside radio, which has a special attachment to plug into his good...
...earning a living, keeping house, or going to school." After more than six months in a hospital, the patient's chances of a good recovery drop swiftly, to only one in ten after seven years. So, Dr. Freeman, who once said of prospective patients: "I won't touch them unless they are faced with disability or suicide," believes now that the hazard of delay is greater than the hazard of performing the operation promptly...
...such tricks as the whip shot: "The die is thrown straight with such an impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...