Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
...their way to the restaurant, where they waited uncomprehendingly-first a dozen, then 20, then 100. Within a few hours, more than 800 people milled about the soda fountain, boiler room, and garage, clamoring for rescue, choking down food, claiming tables for beds. Said a stranded doctor: "It was touch-and-go as far as panic was concerned. We had no coordination and no one was there to organize the people into a cooperative group for the first 20 hours. You could actually feel the tension grow. A curt word here, a hard stare there...
...libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at the point where a married doctor is pursuing his beautiful nurse, who in turn is in love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about to put him under the knife. The curtain rings down as the principals alternate a love duet with commercials for Lochinvar ("the soap of silken supremacy") and Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy...
...raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...
...under control. But in the neatly ordered empire of the chessboard, he moves with vast precision. Swiftly he picks his way among the possibilities; haughtily he sidesteps the traps. Experts compare his aggressive, scientific style to that of Russia's famed Alekhine, his flair for combinations to the touch...