Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kans.) State Hospital last week marked the70th anniversary of the admission of their oldest patient. The patient did not even know that she was making medical history of a negative kind, for she has spent the whole of a normal life span in a world apart, out, of all touch with reality. Nothing was done for her in the years, back before 1900, when treatment might have helped; now it is too late...
Washington was besieged by portraitists; he described himself as being "so hackneyed to the touch of painters' pencils, that I am now altogether at their beck." But Stuart was far & away the best artist of the lot, and today the world sees Washington through Stuart's eyes-on every dollar bill...
...Hour? Fine, who, like Boss Quay, has great "skill in calculating political quantities," can certainly understand the arguments of the county leaders and his friend Sordoni to the effect that Ike is a good bet for November. The Grundys, out of touch with the voters as usual, are pressing just as hard for Taft. They can point to 20 pro-Taft counties. The Ikemen reply that these are rural counties, Republican since the Civil War. The pro-Ike county leaders come from the populous centers where the party faces the fight of its life against the Democrats...
...clue for that device came from a strange source: an army captain had invented a system of dot-and-dash symbols which could be punched out on thick paper and read by touch at night. When Braille heard about it, he got the idea of inventing an alphabet code of his own. The result was the Braille system, based on various arrangements of from one to six dots...
Diplomatic Courier (20th Century-Fox) gets off to a fast start with some semidocumentary shots-directed by old semidocumentary hand Henry ( The House on 92nd Street) Hathaway-on the latest technological devices by which the U.S. State Department keeps in touch with its far-flung outposts...