Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dudley ran away with the House touch football championship yesterday by beating Leverett, 42 to 12. Gale-like winds on Soldiers Field blew five Bunny passes into enemy hands for touchdowns...
...Touch the accommodating artichoke Or the seraphic strawberry beaming...
...dance, weep and love, and values nothing so much as a warm heart and a glad eye. Writes the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, noting Fry's faults as a dramatic technician: "Mr. Fry may be a little deficient in talent, but he has a touch of genius...
Leverett defeated Eliot yesterday, 24 to 12, at Soldiers Field, to take first place in the House touch football standings. If Dudley loses in its game with Lowell Monday, Leverett will become undisputed champs...
Evelyn Waugh is one of the finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...