Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked up 68 delegates from California and eight from South Dakota, he claimed a total strength of about 300. Yet even the Kefauver people know that Truman and the other party leaders will go into the convention in control of 700 or more votes which Kefauver probably cannot touch unless the leaders decide to hand them...
...stormiest figure in Ecuadorian politics. In two terms as President (1934-35, 1944-47), he floundered left and right, created a crisis every week, turned against his backers, made himself dictator and got booted out by the army. He showed a sure sense for the common touch. Once, tearing his trousers climbing into the rickety presidential limousine, he rejected the idea of getting another car, saying: "We will mend the pants, repair the car, and build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when a minor official complained about a cabinet minister, Velasco fired...
...original touch in this picture however, comes in the fact that the accused "boss" is not guilty. The Senator has been duped by the Chief Counsel, listening to his unsubstantiated charges as he makes love to her overlooking Frisco...
Currently the manager of a small business in Lyan, the Cambridge resident has kept in touch with rowing as a member of the Union Boat Club eight, which competes with informal University and M.I.T. crews...
Roosevelt, a Democratic congressman from California, said he was basing his estimate on his "close touch with political leaders all over the country...