Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behind. Political Scientist Charles Lindblom of Yale asserts that capitalism in the past has depended on women, blacks and other groups to accept unthinkingly a disadvantaged role and a meager share of the system's rewards. Now they are pressing for full equality and, says Lindblom, "it's really touch and go" whether the system can satisfy them...
...Boris is the pinnacle of Russian opera, and those who filled the Met last week seemed to have no doubt that the Bolshoi's interpretation was something of a peak, too. The audience let loose repeated barrages of bravos, shouts and applause. Even Andy Warhol was seen to touch palm to palm. The Bolshoi stars were surprised and somewhat unnerved. "They didn't know who to send out first for curtain calls," said Gilbert Hemsley, a production supervisor for Hurok Concerts, which arranged the Bolshoi visit...
...world's highest rates of violent crime. Though world statistics are notoriously unreliable, only a few countries?including Colombia and Mexico, with their macho pride?report higher homicide rates. But obviously such a tradition in itself does not explain today's soaring incidence of crime. "Everything we touch hits the next question," said one sponsor of a university conference on the causes of crime. Following are some of the current theories about crime, no one of which, to be sure, fully explains...
...Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy had anything directly to do with the dictator's death. Officials in the American embassy had tried to persuade Trujillo to resign to end the domestic unrest that the U.S. feared might make the country ripe for Communism. They had also been gingerly in touch with leaders of the political opposition and as a token of the American interest in seeing a change, had provided one faction with three rifles. A group of seven or eight men ambushed Trujillo on the road from his house to the presidential palace. Whether any of the U.S.-supplied...
...snooper was caught in the act of planting his gear. The investigation progressed slowly, but eventually the Las Vegas police insisted on putting the evidence before the FBI, and Maheu informed Colonel Edwards that Giancana and Roselli expected to be protected. By May 1962 the FBI got in touch with Edwards about the matter...