Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours in the Columbine took Ike from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There, at Dartmouth College's commencement exercises, the President marched up to receive an honorary doctorate, stumbling once over the unwieldy academic robes. But his oratorical touch was sure. With the graceful spire of the Dartmouth library as an appropriate backdrop, the President talked easily about the need for a future which values fun, courage, and the basic greatness of U.S. life. This brought him to a paragraph which was headlined as his answer to Joe McCarthy...
Nationally, the titular head of the party is Adlai Stevenson. But for more than three months. Stevenson has been jaunting around the world, keeping in touch with national headquarters only through hastily squiggled notes on postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with the notation that this man "rides the elephant much better than Ike does." Harry Truman, on the eve of a nostalgic visit to Washington, is lodged in a quiet limbo between politician and elder statesman, exerting no party leadership. His latest newsworthy act was to let traveling members...
...around the world, telling anyone who would listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no freedom of taxation. Our police cannot touch them." The French insist on taking Cambodian troops under their command, said Norodom, and he warned: "If we have an invasion of the sort that Laos has suffered recently, I am not at all certain that I can call for a general mobilization as did Laos. If there...
...every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied make-up specially concocted for its versatility in daylight or Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn to the Abbey. The Duke of Edinburgh, blond and handsome in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, joined her, and together...
Dunster finished third in football, and first in touch football and second in soccer in the fall sports. Cohen, Ball, Jack Brophy, Herb Hoffman, Andy Ichiki, Wade, Boies, Peyton, and Dave Cavers played tackle. The touch team included Johnson, Cook, Van Wye, Spencer, and Requardt...