Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower marked his 63rd birthday this week, he was still suffering from a stiff elbow and a mild touch of flu, but generally he was in good health. At his press conference the President showed a new capability for fencing with the press. In conferences past, Eisenhower has almost always given straightforward answers to every question-even those questions he was unready to answer. Last week, the President adopted new tactics. Samples...
Secession. The angry Achinese rallied around Teuku Daud Beureuh, a former military governor of Atjeh. Beureuh was in touch with another Moslem rebel, Kartosuwirjo, who had been defying the government for three years from the wilds of West Java. In September, Beureuh seceded from Indonesia-that is, he proclaimed Atjeh a part of an autonomous Islamic state headed by Kartosuwirjo. At the same time 10,000 of his Achinese warriors, wearing homemade black uniforms and brandishing swords, cutlasses, kukris and even kitchen knives, attacked government police and military posts in eleven Atjeh towns. In most cases the rebels...
...House touch, Kirkland edged Lowell 36 to 24 yesterday on Sid Singer's two touchdowns, as Winthrop defeated Dunster...
Freshman intramural touch football entered its second week with Hollis and Matthews North leading their respective leagues. Hollis, which has scored 101 points in its two games, overwhelmed Massachusetts, 46 to 0, as Matthews North topped Weld South, 9 to 0. Both Hollis and Matthews sport two win, no loss records...
...Jackson in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (319 U. S. 62): "... freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a more shadow of freedom. The test of its substance in the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order if there is any fixed near in our constitutional constrictions, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith...