Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived in Peking on 30th December . . . After five hours' delay, without food for a whole day, [we were] taken to a filthy Chinese hotel for the night. At no time were we allowed to get in touch with [H.M.'s charge d'affaires at Peking]. On 31st December, we went by train to Tientsin under escort, were placed in the Rich hotel and not allowed to leave the bedroom or talk with anyone . . . We were then put on board the S.S. Heinrich Jessen for Hong Kong...
...Gregor Piatigorsky put away his cello for a long rest 15 months ago, he was the best cellist in the U.S.* Back in Carnegie Hall last week for the first time since his sabbatical, a slightly greyer "Grischa" Piatigorsky proved that there is still no one around who can touch...
There was one hitch: neither Lindsay nor Petersen knew much about hot rods or publishing. By haunting Southern California race tracks, they learned the lingo, found that "herding a goat" meant driving an old racing car, that a "jug" was a carburetor, that a "featherfoot" had a light throttle touch. Then a neighborhood engraver showed them how to lay out pages; a printer taught them to proofread. With $859 scraped up from trusting advertisers and friends, Hot Rod magazine appeared in December...
...which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million debt and buy new equipment. When Beven died in 1945, Wayne Johnston, who had started with the railroad...
...first half-mile of the mile-and-a-quarter race, Shoemaker "just folded up on him and let him run his own race," while two fillies, Next Move and Special Touch, fought for the lead. But in the run down the backstretch, Shoemaker began bringing Great Circle up on the outside. Coming into the stretch, with Shoemaker giving him plenty of whip, he overhauled the pacemakers, won by a length and three-quarters...