Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Touch of Bitterness. In his effort to establish a base of strength among the minorities who supported Kennedy, McCarthy gave unwonted attention last week to the subjects of poverty and racial justice. "We have maintained a kind of American apartheid in this country," he told the racially mixed Community Council of Greater New York. "We must proceed to bring an end to this colonialism in our own country." The audience, thick with former Kennedy loyalists, was little impressed, and one Negro even shouted "Down with McCarthy!" Afterward the Senator exclaimed with a touch of bitterness: "Those people are the enemy...
...flowers. The wearers look trim and nude -from a distance-while remaining covered and helpfully girdled. "It's sex and conservatism in one package," Miss Cole states. Another camouflage is a new version of that old favorite, the tunic, which hangs loosely to the hips and adds a touch of shadowed piquancy to the flab within...
...sponsored by the New York Times, the race started normally enough. "I cranked and the engine started," recalled George last week with a touch of awe. "We sped down Broadway to Times Square and into the biggest crowd of people I ever saw." Exactly 41 days, eight hours and 15 minutes later, Schuster's 60-h.p. Thomas Flyer arrived in San Francisco, thus ending the easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then...
Harman's theory is that human aging is at least partly due to the action of body chemicals called "free radicals." These oxidizing agents touch off reactions that Harman believes cause bodily changes like hardening of the arteries, a commonly accepted sign of aging. BHT, on the other hand, is an antioxidant, a substance that retards those oxidizing reactions. It works its elixir-of-youth magic in mice, says Harman, by soaking up their free radicals like a powerful chemical sponge...
...learns that her mother may have cancer. She has lunch with a bitchy girl friend from Montreal who tells her that one of her former husbands is a suicide. She and her present husband make love enjoyably (it is a fine touch that Mary thinks of men in dim and stereotyped terms, as if seen by a self-obsessed woman...