Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raushenbush guides its administration. The diminuative, grey-haired dean is loved and admired by every Sarah Lawrence student. While Taylor is forced to spend most of his time on policy, hiring, financial matters, and his own course, in philosophy. Mrs. Raushenbush actually runs the college with her light touch. Studying the work reports that take the place of grades, she evaluates each student's learning so that, together with a girl's don and a special faculty board, she may determine whether or not a student ought to remain at Sarah Lawrence. At the end of each year, composed...
...camp or stand on a piece of ground that was now reserved for Europeans. He put on his cassock and joined them. Pleasant-looking young white men in athletic clothes gathered with pretty girls under the trees opposite. They attacked the Indians, making hunting cries. They did not touch Scott. They merely said, "If you stand for God, I'm against Him." They knocked down the men and called the girls "curry guts." An Indian girl turned to Scott: "It's not their fault; they don't know what they're doing." She was a Moslem...
...says Clarke, "everybody has thought some time or another about robbing a bank or shooting his relatives. Take one of those chaps whose honesty everybody takes for granted. Supposing he was all along planning a huge robbery? What would he do? What would I do myself?" But a touch of sanity usually pays off: "We avoid those comedies where everybody is mad. We try to keep our feet very much on the ground-or at least...
...paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...
...Navy, Coursen of Springfield, Rose of Long Island, and Haney of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. In a fourth round match, leading by a fair margin. Lee rolled over on his own shoulders in applying a cradle hold to Armand Taylor, a Norfolk, Virginia, schoolboy, and since Olympic touch-fall rules were followed in the tournament, was declared loser. Blubaugh placed first and Taylor second...