Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later the two old House leaders, both in close touch with developments, finally got together. Joe Martin arose from .his minority leader's table and trudged the 30 feet up to the Speaker's dais. Joe and Sam whispered together for about five minutes. Could they have been talking about civil rights? "Oh, no." said Joe Martin. "We were just talking about when we're going home...
Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...even aggravate it by forcing up the dollar's value, thus encouraging imports and making exporters' competition for world markets more difficult. The country's money managers are worried that trade may freeze in this pattern. Yet the alternatives are scarcely inviting. Discouraging foreign investment might touch off a recession. If Canada tried to peg its dollar at a lower level, it would redouble the incentive of foreign capital to invest. And it is questionable whether Canadian taxpayers would willingly finance a costly stabilization plan certain to cause higher prices at home...
...touch and go," said Dr. Franklin Clark Fry. "I had grave doubts that we would be able to do it. But we have...
...local Houston radio shows. He was hustled to New York, shorn of his Elvis Presley locks, fitted into a grey flannel suit and photographed in Central Park, looking sincere. RCA is pushing him with the trade on two newly released singles: Just Look, Don't Touch, She's Mine and Love A, Love A Lover...