Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What I have said does not, of course, touch in any way the question of what either teacher or student may do outside the academic walls. They are, and I am sure, almost all want to be responsible citizens. It has been one of the sources of trouble endangering academic freedom that certain individuals have presumed that such freedom gives a privileged position in the political arena...
Reston foresees a virtual honeymoon between Congress and President Eisenhower. "Ike has a great personal touch," he said. "He doesn't believe in an inevitable conflict with anyone--Russia, Senator Taft, or anyone...
...LIFE & FORTUNE. To enter politics in 1942, as a Republican candidate for Congress from Connecticut's Fourth District, she switched from a career as a successful author and playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error). In her first campaign she showed a sureness of political touch and a flair for the dramatic political phrase which delighted her audiences, and got her elected. When she arrived in Washington as a freshman Congresswoman, she was appointed to the important House Military Affairs Committee. During the term she kept up a sharp, running attack on the New Deal, voted...
Some in flowing robes, others in college blazers, the chiefs offered to kneel and touch Her Majesty's heel, the highest honor a Nyasaland chief can pay. But they did not get to see her. Instead, an all-white conference, after first devising a web of constitutional safeguards to protect the Africans' rights, approved federation, with or without the natives' support. The chiefs had to be satisfied with a call on Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Last week, their money spent and their mission a failure, the chiefs left London in discouragement, and disillusioned about Lyttelton...
...forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago flat, and left her with little more in the till than 400 shares of seemingly worthless stock in an oil-cracking company which her creditors wouldn't touch. Less than four years later, the oil-cracking rights were sold to Standard Oil of California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved back to the North Shore, invested grandly in Chicago real estate, made a sensational social comeback, and passed...