Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touch not his little daughter...
...week's end, the President boarded the Williamsburg for a cruise down the Potomac, a one-day pause in his steady, and increasingly grim, preoccupation with his job. He was in touch, by radio, with the news from Korea, also increasingly grim. The current was carrying him on. It seemed only a question of time before President Truman would have to take stouter action. The nation's preparations, as Bernard Baruch had well said, had to be keyed to the worst possibilities of Russian behavior, not to the least dislocation of the U.S. economy...
...event of an atom bomb attack. They set up two committees to study the possibility of protecting account ledgers and other records by microfilming them each day, storing the film safely outside the city. With duplicate records intact, banks could thus move their offices to outlying areas, keep in touch with each other through a new clearinghouse, which would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables which New York banks now have stored in their vaults. The vaults, sunk in solid Manhattan Island rock...
...Smythe Hichens, 85, author of The Paradine Case, 50-odd other novels; in Zurich, Switzerland. A turn-of-the-century favorite (The Garden of Allah, 1904, sold nearly a million copies), Novelist Hichens turned out fiction that earned him a comfortable income long after he had lost the bestselling touch...
...rigidly hierarchical as in a primitive tribe. When the president wanted to issue a command, his personal stooge called the gang to attention by shouting "Time! Time!" If a fellow had his initials scratched on the arm of a deb (a girl member), no other Harp was allowed to touch her until she formally declared that she was through with him. Modeling themselves after such movie heroes as Alan Ladd ("The way he beats his women! He stomps them"), the Harps treated their debs with elaborately casual brutality...