Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford is not the only one who does not like to miss a single issue of TIME. The small supply that you have allotted to Morocco is sold out the day it reaches the newsstands. In this beautiful but remote place, which is Marrakech, TIME keeps me in touch with the rest of the world. And the other day, having to cross the Atlas Mountains to Taroudant to visit a Moroccan businessman, I was pleased to find on my night table the latest copy of your International edition...
There are only a few things left at Harvard which can touch off the slippery streams of nostalgia for the reunioning Class of 1924. This Friday's boat race with Yale is one of them...
...will be a whirling day of almost strident gayety. There will be long-limbed, sun-tanned girls with young men in straw hats. There will be mountains of cans of the amber pinnacle of the brewmasters' art and the ice cooled mixture of gin and olive--with just a touch of vermouth. There will be yachts and pennants and drunken old reads and drunken old blues and sports writers will duly notate the proceedings and dutifully record the color of New London on race...
Suicide in a Canoe. Another report to the FBI told of how a 48-year-old Harvard graduate named Morton E. Kent had allegedly tried to get in touch with a Bulgarian suspected of being a Russian intelligence agent. This touched off a set of secondary explosions...
Bombs soared into the air and burst a thousand feet above the harbor into terrible yellow blossom. Shrapnel peppered the brick walls of the warehouses, plowed the planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...