Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting in Korea, holds open house one day each week to hear the petty gripes...
...usual childhood diseases and having had their tonsils out. Ike has got rid of his appendix; Adlai still has his. Neither has had any other major surgery: the nearest approach to it was removal of a Stevenson kidney stone last June, without cutting. Each has had a touch of bursitis in one shoulder...
Despite the fact that Stevenson is a "conspicuous intellectual" and uses "Harvard words," he may have "the real common touch" according to Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology...
...Stevenson doesn't have the common touch, how do you explain his terrific victory in the Illinois gubernatorial election of 1943?" Parsons asked. "You can be sure that he wouldn't have been elected if the party leaders weren't convinced he was a good vote-getter," he added...
...about the program that I want to write you: the Beethoven Fourth, Berlioz' "Royal Runt and Storm," and the Brahms First. Mr. Munch, this choice is surely a failure either of nerve or of imagination. Indeed, the guests have been fed beef and potatoes with a touch of cola slaw on the side. For this nourishing fare we must be grateful. Yet surely one can design a more stimulating musical diet: something earlier than Beethoven, something later than Brahms. Perhaps you are as weary of playing items of standard repertory as I am of hearing them at so many concerts...