Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Puritans scored only 15 of a possible 40 points in the cross country meet, victories in the football and touch football leagues and a sixth place in soccer made up the deficit...
Eliot, with 292.5 points, moved up a notch from last year's fifth place slot by finishing second is soccer and third in touch football...
...bond-raising tour, was one of the very few diplomats who predicted that Egypt's rising young Colonel Nasser would elect to join neither West nor East but Nehru's neutralists. For all his urbanity, Abba Eban sometimes argues his case with a touch of bitterness and bite. "Israel," he once said, "stands out as an island of freedom in the wilderness of despotism...
...last of four Strategic Air Command bases built by the U.S. in Morocco since. 1951, and is complete to housing, code rooms, radar, cold-storage plant, glass-walled servicemen's club and movie theater. Last week, after six months, Boulhaut had yet to see the first plane touch down on its 10,000-foot runway, and the total base personnel was one Air Force captain, one master sergeant and a girl secretary...
Meanwhile, Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...