Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five mornings a week she drives out to her office in outlying Rabat, where she directs Morocco's Entraide Nationale, the administrative headquarters of all Moroccan welfare agencies, and fountainhead of Morocco's drive against illiteracy. Says Aisha: "This position lets me touch the lowest levels of society-the fellahin, widows and orphans alike. I work here not just to supervise, but to participate in the lives of the people. By touching evil at close quarters, I can learn how to cure...
...there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without them...
...Victorian touch--"highest morals"--still holds onto the magazine, but there are evidences that its grip is less strong than it once...
Grays Hall romped over Matthews North 40-0 yesterday to move into a tie with Thayer Middle for the National League championship. The 40-0 score was the highest yet recorded in freshman intramural touch football...
Thayer and Grays will clash this afternoon in a playoff for the right to meet Hurlbut Hall, undisputed winner of the American League. The tournament winner will go to Yale to oppose the winner of the Elis' touch football tourney...