Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian advisers flooded into China after the Nationalist breakdown in 1949. Their activities touch practically all phases of Chinese life. They number about 42,000, of whom 19,000 are civilian technicians while 23,000 serve with the Chinese Red armed forces...
...Assistant Secretary of State once directed the Voice of America. He hired a helicopter, plastered a big sign on it: "Here's Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that I've had an experience such as you may understand. Men's trousers weren't made to be worn in helicopters-the cold air goes right...
Although daily mundane tasks make up most of work, the staff does get interesting assignments. During Commencement week, for example, College officials annually begin wondering about weather. And, Brooks reports, it is touch and go. One year, seeing an ominously heavy storm building up over Jamaica Plain, he examined the prevailing wind direction and advised Class Committeemen to move the senior spread indoors. When the wind changed, bringing the rain to Blue Hill instead of Cambridge, Brooks expected complaints. He got compliments instead; another storm that he could not see had moved in from the north and soaked the Yard...
...quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...
...student needs money to go on to advanced degrees, Haldy will lend him some ("And really, I've never lost a cent"). Later, as the years pass, he keeps writing to his old students, following their careers to universities and research laboratories across the U.S. "I keep in touch with them all," says Bachelor Haldy. "They are my family, and there are too many of them for me ever to be lonely...