Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like it, they can swing out the union door again between their isth and 30th day on the job. All steelworkers have the option of turning in their union cards during a 15-day period at the expiration of the contract in 1954. The union cannot touch old non-union employees...
...decision which halts a 20-year trend, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the President's seizure of steel. ¶ The price and wage raises will doubtless touch off yet another postwar round of wage and price increases...
Paris renewed an old and well-remembered friendship. Marie Laurencin, 68, had her first one-man show in years. One look was enough to convince Paris that Marie still belongs in the inner circle of French moderns and that her touch is as light and pleasure-bent as ever. Said admiring Poet Andre Salmon: "She can paint a girl with eyes like a doe, and a doe with eyes like a girl...
...done such celebrities as Harvard President James B. Conant, Judge Learned Hand, Dean Acheson), it was plain that he is no mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three...
...other side of the ocean," but in its brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...