Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't until the arrival of Ambassador Lodge, who was not tied to backing Diem, that any other view started flowing to Washington from Saigon. Any other, that is, except for the reporters'. In touch withe the American field advisors, they were calling them as they saw them. When Time magazine disregarded the reports of its two men and attacked the journalists for not following the Time and American line, they resigned...
...marketing ginger-and citrus-flavored versions of the tablet. To convince people that they do not have to drink a gallon of water with Alka-Seltzer, the company is also suggesting in its ads that they adopt the habit of downing Alka-Seltzer "on the rocks," with only a touch of water...
Although its shores touch two oceans and twelve seas, the Soviet Union is practically a landlocked nation. It has too few ports, and those are too far from major population centers and too often on icebound waters. Peter the Great began building a network of canals to link the country's broad rivers, but so much of the network became obsolete that 80% of all the Soviet Union's freight is now carried by rail. The absence of suitable waterways has for centuries hampered Russia's struggle to increase its world trade...
...Actors with no apparent sense of timing turned out to be marching to a distant crucial drum. Some sooty cripple who would have been booed down at a PTA benefit stuck up her face and said her little pice at, peek-a-boo, just the moment a touch of farce...
...fact that Rosenberg has published at least as much as any of the three assistant professors of English given tenure this year lends a touch of irony to the popular "publish or perish" assumption out appointments. In 1960 he published from Shylock to Svengali," on Jewish stereotypes in English fiction, to excellent views here and in England. Random cause is publishing his study of the historical novel next year...