Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attend a Declassification Conference at which the U.S., Britain and Canada decided what atomic information could be made available to the public. He also visited the Argonne Laboratory in Chicago. On this trip he saw no information he had not seen before, nor did he get in touch with Russian agents so far as FBI men knew...
...waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against a tentpole, apparently the B.C. equivalent of a lamppost. And she rushes from divan to tentpole with such speed and determination that you begin to wonder whether old C. B. DeMille has lost his touch. In the fifth place, Victor Young's musical score is monotonous and sounds like bad Khatchatourian...
...added a scientific touch to College fencing. Tuesday the team bought a set of electric epees, which will take the guesswork out of determining the winners of epee contests...
...business economy," said FORTUNE, "pervades American life and nearly every one of 150 million Americans are in it. . . Most of our 'know-how' works only in a business economy ... In most of the world, business activity does not touch the mass of the people . . ." As an example of what could be done, FORTUNE cited Sears, Roebuck's new stores in Brazil. To keep the stores going, Sears men had to go about Brazil persuading local manufacturers to make stuff for them to sell. "Sears has linked formerly separated Brazilians into new business currents with one another. This...
...intrinsic part of the story, a deft commingling of the sinister with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which speaks more tellingly than a full symphony orchestra...