Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey erroneously credits "that mythological god Atlas" with the ability "to touch the earth and gain strength" [Election Extra]. Atlas was a Titan, not a god, whose function in Greek mythology was the support of the earth on his back. His strength was sapped, not supplemented, by the crushing burden...
...character Mr. Humphrey should have referred to is Antaeus, a giant who was held in the air by Hercules and thus slain when he was unable to touch the ground and regain his strength...
...want the children to touch, to hold, to operate, and to care for," says Teacher Velma Branch. A teacher goes behind a screen and asks children to identify the sound of a bouncing ball, an egg beater, a newspaper being crumpled. Pupils smell fruits and flowers, classify objects according to texture, distinguish shapes, care for pets. They even are assigned rudimentary homework: "Take this pear home. Eat it and bring back the seeds tomorrow...
...Board's committees to visit the Departments of Military, Naval and Air Science and the Department of Astronomy, and was also a member of the committees to visit the Department of Government and the Graduate School of Public Administration. Throughout his active public life he never lost touch with the University. It was natural for him to draw on its faculties to on small extent in filling important positions in his administration...
Kirkland got a measure of revenge by winning the touch football championship from Trumbull, 14-13, but the Deacons lost the soccer championship to Calhoun...