Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them in detail about his plans and programs. He also has a warm friendship with Speaker Rayburn's top fiscal adviser, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, able chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee. These leadership contacts, plus his unflagging attention to every staffer...
Mahmud thanked his well-wishers and reassured them: "Just now, I did not feel the touch of death. I am filled with calmness. I am traveling to eternity in peace." He submitted once more to the noose. This time the rope held, and Mahmud went to death dancing on air. Again the crowd intoned "Salavat!", and many onlookers threw silver coins at the gallows to cleanse themselves of contamination. The body dangled in Naserieh Square until evening, when it was taken down and buried in the municipal cemetery. Nothing in Mahmud's life so became him as the leaving...
...HAVEN, Nov. 20--Winthrop House and Grays Hall triumphed today in the championship touch football games by downing Trumbull College and the Yale freshman team, respectively...
...last year's contests, the Crimson managed to reverse the tide of Blue victories by winning six of the 11 contests, including two of the three championship games. Leverett defeated Pierson College 34 to 26 for the touch football title, and the Adams soccer team blanked Pierson 2 to 0 to take the booting laurels. At the same time, Dunster lost its football game for the second year...