Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double touch in the epee on the deciding point between John Smith and his Engineer opponent led to a split in one of the matches...
...York Times wondered what had happened to its Moscow correspondent, Harrison Salisbury. Then, when his copy finally came in, the Times discovered that Soviet censorship had held up everything. "Three [dispatches]," explained the Times, "were subjected to extraordinary censorship delays, varying from one to four days, presumably because they touch on matters that apparently have been undergoing high-policy discussion within the Soviet Government...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
...stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full of the plea of peoples who have lost touch with Christ...
Although the present staff consists only of Radcliffe students and Commission executives, Harvard and Boston University students interested in working on the Bulletin should get in touch with Charlotte Allen, Commission secretary, at the NSA headquarters at 96 Winthrop Street...