Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...useful for filling the files at home." In Paris, an embassy labor attache, leaving after four years, remarked ruefully that he doubted if anyone anywhere had really read one of his reports. The result is that communications break down under sheer volume. "We think the Americans here are in touch with reality and are accurately reporting our attitudes," says an African leader. "But somehow we have a feeling that the message is not being delivered...
...Bolton (Henry Fonda) is a Chicago advertising man who believes that he is "very close" to his daughter, but when he flies to New York to meet an unknown son-in-law acquired within the week, it is quickly apparent that he has been out of touch for at least nine months. His daughter (Holly Turner) is quite obviously about to make him an instant grandfather...
...Quiet Touches. The new Rolls, called the Silver Shadow, has been changed in other respects. Somehow, the designers have been able to increase the interior room while decreasing the outer dimensions. The car is built in the latest "monocoque" principle-already used in the Jaguar and the Rambler-which combines the chassis and body into a single unit of construction. It also incorporates a number of engineering advances that have long been standard on some lower-priced cars, including independent suspension for all four wheels, power steering and hydraulic disk brakes-to which Rolls added its own quiet touch...
Asked if the CEP plan would solve some of the problems his group found with the Gen Ed program, Doty said that "If you had to touch on just two or three points, I'm fairly satisfied that they've made a good choice. It just makes it more necessary that the committee be given a strong mandate...
...keep it under his helmet and do his job." With an $84-a-week road allowance and more party invitations than they can shake a dirk at, the troops find that the helmets fit tightly at times. "We have reports of dancing and some roistering," says Brigadier MacLean, but "touch wood," there have been no complaints about the men's behavior to date...