Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently Bill Drury got in touch with one Marvin Bas, a small-fry lawyer who was also collecting dirt for Gilbert's Republican opponent. One day last week, in a strangely agitated state, Drury visited his own lawyer. "I'm awfully hot," said Drury. "I need protection." Drury's lawyer telephoned a Kefauver committee investigator for bodyguards...
Although the forum committee has not announced any future programs, it plans to touch on many topics of interest to the prospective student audience...
...been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister soft. Although he spends six months of the year in his Miami home or in the Caribbean aboard his 71 -ft. cruiser, the High Tide, he is never out of touch with the paper, uses his ship-to-shore phone when necessary...
...sour-faced man with saddlebag eyes gingerly picked his way past a covey of dancing girls, glared at the cameras and sneered: "That is the finale of the old Jack Carter program . . . our show starts where the others leave off." Old friends remembered the touch. After a year in semiretirement, Fred Allen was back this week in the gold mines, digging for all he was worth and giving entertaining signs of hating every minute...
Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...