Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launch. As the sailboat started to turn, a young lady standing in the bow tossed a stone into the launch. Brelis picked up the stone, found a piece of paper wrapped around it with thick rubber bands. On the paper was a message for him to get in touch with Western Union's Operator 25 immediately, for a wire from TIME...
...most respects, the President's plan for reorganization of the U.S. defense establishment followed the recommendations of Nelson Rockefeller's three-month-old Committee on Department of Defense Organization.* But it also reflected a sureness of touch based on the President's intimate knowledge of the nation's military machine and its shortcomings. "I address the Congress," noted Eisenhower last week, "on a subject which has been of primary interest to me throughout all the years of my adult life...
That slow plodding to the capital, which took two months, was a triumphant journey. At nearly every town and village, Bhave found arbors of palms and mango leaves erected for him to walk through. Underfed, ragged villagers crowded around to touch the holy man's feet, and to bathe them when he would stop for a rest. Municipal dignitaries garlanded him with flowers, which the little ascetic passed back to the crowd. At each departure, the elders walked with him a mile toward the next village. And at every stop, he held a prayer meeting and carried on with...
Other colleges also suffered a rowdy touch of spring...
...shine!" Poor Albert-fate had equipped him with a million-watt ambition, but his soul was wired for common house-current. Or, as British Author William Cooper states it in this entertaining novel about The Struggles of Albert Woods: "Can you be a great man if you have a touch of the little man? That was Albert Woods's life problem...