Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that item appeared, lady barbers in Chicago, Fort Worth, Dallas and New York got in touch with the company to ask indignantly where the search had been conducted. The company also heard from...
...when called to England's throne, Mary agreed to cross the Channel only if her husband, Stadholder William III of The Netherlands, could be coruler. Together, the two assumed kingship, making Mary the only feminine King in English history. Actually, Mary, a dutiful, intelligent woman who added a touch of respectability to a loose age, did little except serve and adore her stern, taciturn, unfaithful but capable husband. Like Mary I and Elizabeth, she died childless...
...there is a gentle sensation like going down in an elevator. When Bill "kicks on" his rocket motors, he feels a great push of acceleration but no sensation of speed. Below the speed of sound, the Skyrocket "flies like a little queen," responds sensitively to his lightest touch...
...windsprints or a 1,500-yard trial to build up endurance. After lunch, there is a welcome hour of rest. Fencing practice is a grueling two-hour workout-for in the Olympic pentathlon, usually with some 50 men competing, the fencers must all meet one another in tense touch-and-out matches. Troy tops off his squad's work day with about an hour of cross-country, the easiest of the five sports to teach and learn. ("You just have to get out there...
Then came the 1929 crash. Cobina blames herself now for being so heedless of business affairs; while the bottom was falling out of the stock market she was busy with cross-country concerts and social life. She had also lost touch with her husband. A few years after the Wright millions went down the drain, the marriage broke up. Bill went off with another woman. They were divorced, not without a scandal "spicy enough," she notes, "to share front-page space with the trial of the Lindbergh kidnaper...