Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girouard, Tom Flaherty, and Dick Conley then singled in succession, giving Northeastern an 8-5 lead. The Huskies never threatened again; but the damage had already been done since the varsity never regaind the touch which had produced five runs in the first three innings...
...Bauhaus. Paul Klee is an artist who needs no post-scripts or excuses. His touch may become a trifle too casual at times but it never loses its integrity. Its poetry is always there to dwarf the importance of titles and methods. In short, his work stands of its own strength. A comparison of Klee's work with a wall of Kandinskys opposite, is a course in aesthetics all by itself. The similarities involved are sufficiently tangible to have linked the names of Klee and Kandinsky in the public eye. The differences, however, are more significant. Klee is the depth...
...Jersey's Governor Robert Baumle Meyner knows that a presidential prospect can look like Cinderella, but he must also have a sure touch with the fairy godmother's political wand. Bob Meyner was Cinderellegant last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
...education today. You people set up laws on what is to go in people's mouths, but you won't even set up recommendations on what goes into their minds." A survey of European educational methods would cost about $50,000, and, he added with a touch of acid, "I know you people don't fool around with peanuts like that...
When the unsuspecting Saadi appealed to Zerrouk to furnish fresh Arab recruits to make bombs, Zerrouk suggested that Saadi get in touch with F.L.N. leaders in nearby Kabylia. Saadi innocently followed the suggestion, only to learn later that as soon as the Kabylia recruits arrived in Algiers, the French promptly seized them. By last Sept. 24, all that was left of Saadi's once formidable terrorist empire was Saadi himself. That day (TIME, Oct. 7) the French ringed his casbah hideout and captured him and his mistress...