Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two of the four fields presently in use are for House football, the other two being used for touch football...
...newsstand copies. Copies of TIME, printed in Chicago, arrive at his offices in St. Louis at 7 a.m. Thursday. According to Rogan, "They're still hot from the special heat process used for quick-drying the ink. Often they're still warm when the news dealers first touch them. To my mind, it really emphasizes the freshness and speed with which TIME has come to them...
...prisoners were called out of their cells, marched up a nearby hill and pushed into a large cave. As soon as the prisoners were all in the cave, the Communists began firing. Bullets killed the men on the right & left of Han, tore through his clothing, but did not touch him. The Communists blasted the entrance to the cave, but failed to close it entirely. For two days Han remained in the cave, then crawled out to meet South Korean liberators...
...Pattern. Vargas never lost touch with Brazil's poor and underprivileged, but by war's end, the Estado Novo was discredited. The army, announcing that the country was overdue for democracy, forced Vargas to resign, and he went into self-exile at his Rio Grande do Sul ranch from which he emerged this year...
...displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat and Fats Waller style. Walter Gross's efforts with Mozartiana and The Way You Look Tonight are pretty...