Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation is ripped and razed, leveled and linked with freeways, toll roads and a 41,000-mile, $40 billion interstate highway system that represents the greatest road-building program ever undertaken, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens are having their lives abruptly changed-but not always with the gentle touch of a fairy godmother. Cities and towns are slashed up the middle. Quiet neighborhoods become the home of screeching tires and carbon monoxide; farmlands are sliced into pieces that can no longer be economically worked. The uprooted may agree with Seattle Art Dealer Zoe Dusanne, whose home and gallery overlooking...
Menshikov courted the U.S. loyal opposition by dining with Adlai Stevenson and giving him some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet...
...latest favorite soothsayer ("A great bomb will drop in August! There will be trouble everywhere"). His wife, Hartini, gave birth to a son at the presidential summer palace 35 miles south of Djakarta, making Sukarno a father for the seventh time. Because his own Nationalist Party was rapidly losing touch with the masses, Sukarno has leaned increasingly on the Communists. He admires their dynamic ability to organize monster demonstrations with all of the theatrical effects-banners, chanted slogans, parades, fiery speeches-which have always been his weakness. But the Communists frighten him too. Says an intimate: "If they staged rival...
...note of political advice to his chosen successor. War Secretary William Howard Taft. T.R. added a last touch of the political virtuosity that had made him his enemies but had got his results. Said T.R.: "About your playing golf ... I have received literally
...holster in his home and an air navigation chart. With him went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with rank equivalent to a Deputy Premier...