Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London newspapers in close touch with official thinking, the Sunday Times and the Observer, reported that Macmillan will urge President Eisenhower and President Charles de Gaulle of France to go with him to the summit...
...such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...Comment. "Now I feel this way about Secretary Dulles," the President continued. "The doctors have assured me there is nothing in his disease that is going to touch his heart and his head, and that is what we want...
...targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express' readership...
Whether through a celebrity in the dining hall, a new drama workshop, or a bottle of sherry at a concentration dinner, the Ford grants to the Houses touch the undergraduate in many ways. From a Ford Foundation award, the Corporation annually gives $25000 to each Master, allowing him, as Master Fair puts it, "leeway to apply his imagination...