Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Town Topics. CHAK's most important contribution to Arctic life is its free broadcast of personal messages. Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Aklavikans can get in touch, via CHAK, with friends or relatives out trapping in the Mackenzie River delta country. Thus Nels Hvatum learned one night that his house in Aklavik had been destroyed by fire and two of his children killed. Last week, CHAK's listeners heard such messages as these...
...found a 14th Century greystone house deep in the Chatillon forest north of Dijon. "It is better to lie down in the grass and regard nature intimately," he has decided, "than to spend your life in ceaseless discussions. To read the blossoms and other arrangements of nature, to touch the wonderful textures of things in the woods, with surfaces as exciting as a woman's skin-you can't find that in a cafe...
...Lewis is sentimentally setting the stage for it. Neil is shown to have a lovely white wife, a little daughter "with [a] skin of strawberries and cream," a high-class home in a "restricted" residential district. Posed before Neil Kingsblood is the agonizing moral question: must I admit "my touch of the tarbrush" when I know what misery this admission will create for my wife and child...
Leverett's 48 point margin over Eliot came primarily as a result of victories in touch football, wrestling, and golf, and seconds and thirds in other sports. Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell took third-fourth, and fifth places in the final standings...
...California had heard the story of Avak Hagopian, the goldsmith's apprentice of Azerbaijan. Four years ago, when Avak was 16, God had appeared in a vision before him. God had given Avak the power to cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army doctor 'assigned to investigate...