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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he finishes his Sunday sermons, and passes out through the crowd, many people gather around him to touch or kiss him, and pass money into his hand which he quietly pockets. He brags openly, "right over there on Charles Street there's a car full of priests, waiting for me and giving me moral support from a distance, too cowardly to come out in the open like...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...trick, but they know it requires a plane with the proper wings to prevent it from rolling out of the skidding, cartwheel turn. It also needs the powerful thrust of the Meteor's two jets, set just the right distance apart. And it needs Zura's confident touch on the controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twin-Jet Pinwheel | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...posing coolly without a stitch. Davidson flew out to the barber, soon emerged as smooth as Tweedledee. When he got home, Mrs. Davidson took one look at the close-cut sward and shrieked: "You are awful-you are terrible-don't come near me-don't touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Face Values | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...host of former Ivy League athletes combined yesterday to give the Intellects the Business School touch football championship with a crushing 31 to 0 victory over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intellects Gather Busy School Grid Playoff, 31 to 0 | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

Business School touch football All-Stars will meet the Law School All-Stars at 2 p.m. today in front of Dillon Field House. The Business School team is led by Princeton football stars George Sella and Jack McKenna, Columbia basketball player Norm Skinner, Crosby and Nadherny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intellects Gather Busy School Grid Playoff, 31 to 0 | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

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