Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress. As the commission warned, there is no time to lose. Ominous harbingers of summer violence were already evident last week in several cities. Windows were smashed, and a Negro boy was shot to death by police in Omaha when a speaking appearance by Alabama's George Wallace touched off two nights of disturbances. A strike by garbage collectors in Memphis escalated into scattered disturbances and threats of rioting. And a proposed riot-control training exercise by Tennessee National Guardsmen in the state's four major cities brought angry protests and warnings from Negro leaders that the troops...
...mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh Bay, the U.S. base long considered the most impregnable bastion in Viet Nam and twice chosen for Viet Nam touch downs by Lyndon Johnson. The North Vietnamese also kept up their artillery pressure on the Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. One shell hit a troop-carrying C-123 circling to land; all 49 on board were killed when the plane crashed and burned in Communist-held territory...
...dealt with the best humorists of his time, he was no phrasemaker. This was about his speed: he once asked Alexander Woollcott to describe him, and Woollcott immediately replied: "Timid." Ross's reply was quick and typical: "You sneaky son of a bitch, you've been in touch with my mother...
...feeling against the war in Vietnam, but was a genuine tribute to the Minnesota Senator's singularly graceful, straightforward campaign style. McCarthy's showing was also partly the result of the clumsy write-in run by the President's backers--an inept performance typical of the confused, out-of-touch condition of the Democratic national leadership...
Farnsworth has lamented, "We're called upon for lectures and conferences on drugs all over the country but rarely are we approached on the problem at Harvard." Harvard students do not want UHS advice because they believe that the Services is out of touch with what is happening here...