Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year he expected to do just about as well. "I'm going to sign up with the Government for 5,000 bushels of corn at $1.40 a bushel. But I won't touch it for a while. Then if I can get better than $1.40 from private dealers, I'll sell it to them, and simply return the Government's money. The nice thing is that there is no interest to pay either. If a better price doesn't come along, I can sell it to the Government at $1.40. You just...
...since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty Mo slid on and on, and then stopped, her waterline six feet out of water, her bottom resting stolidly...
...accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud...
...Holy Cross success was depth in its platoons. What Forward Bob Cousy (rhymes with woozy) added was near-perfection at handling a basketball, plus a touch of crowd-pleasing showmanship seldom seen on college courts. One of his specialties: a behind-the-back dribble in which he raced down the floor at top speed, dribbling with his right hand, then bounced the ball behind him and pivoted off in another direction, dribbling lefthanded. Another: stealing the ball from an opponent about to pass. Against Kansas, Cousy stole the ball twice in seven seconds, scored four of the 261 points...
...woman who calls herself the Countess Aurelia, but who is known to her many friends as "the madwoman." This is not necessarily derogatory. It is difficult to tell how old the Countess might be because she dresses in the style of the 1880's and is rather out of touch with the times--a fear she manages by living in a dream-world and reading every morning a 1903 newspaper...