Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, declared the successor to Robert Hutchins, college courses at Chicago are "too abstract and theoretical." Without further comment he affirmed that they should be in closer touch with reality...
...University chancellor was immediately answered by Maurice Cramer, chairman of the humanities department. Cramer was quoted by the Chicago Maroon as saying "it would not be easily possible for the humanities courses to be in any closer touch with the real and concrete since the theoretical in these courses exists as a means to apprehend the real and concrete. In any case, there is more of the real and concrete in the humanities than there is of the theoretical...
...Touch of the Brush. Georgia's Carl Vinson did what he could to defend the bill against indiscriminate cutting. "I am certain," he said, "that so long as this nation remains prepared . . . war is not imminent. Let down our guard and the lightning will strike." But the House was not in the mood for sober counsels. At the first touch of the scrub brush it began flailing back. It refused to restore any part of the Committee cuts. Then it sliced out half a billion more, leaving a final figure of $46.2 billion...
...spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign Minister; by year's end he was named Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could...
...army revolt might be attempted whether he led it or not. By that time it may also have dawned on him that he had small chance of winning at the polls. As the Strong Man blandly explained the situation: "The young officers became restless, and they put themselves in touch with me." Batista heeded his countrymen's importunate pleas and plunged into conspiratorial planning with some of his old comrades...