Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Willkie in Colorado, young Jim Hagerty first took up golf (he has a sure touch on the greens, but his body sway on the tee leads to flubs, which Frequent Partner Dwight Eisenhower calls "Hagerty Drives"). Hagerty was genuinely fond of Willkie. But his memories of the mismanaged Willkie train make White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved...
...were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted against the night sky, cries "We will gain our freedom," and hurls himself into the abyss below...
...thus, in his letter to Bulganin, he redefined the meaning of the world competition and lifted the free world's faith in its cause. At home and abroad, the President moved notably in the second week of the new year to give those who called for it a touch of the style of command he once summed up: "Only strength can cooperate; weakness can only...
...will be the woman?...How can it happen, when, after all, I always remain the same?" So muses the Marschallin, the wise, witty and autumnal beauty in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. For years the part was the special glory of Opera Singer Lotte Lehmann, and its touch of middle-aging melancholy took on a special meaning for her as Soprano Lehmann herself gradually grew too old to sing it (her last Metropolitan Opera appearance in the role...
...Touch & Glow? In Washington, D.C., FBI agents gingerly arrested Brown Coleman and James Thompson while the two were loading into Coleman's car 20 lead bars stolen from the Naval Research Laboratory (where they were used as shields for experimental reactors), made a quick check, happily discovered the loot was not radioactive...