Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Touch. From Berthoud Pass, the Cadillac rolled down the western slope of the Rockies into a long, grassy valley (alt.: 8,561 ft.), at one end of which lies the town of Fraser (pop. 350). Fraser, whose dusty streets and log buildings look like sets for a horse opera, was a little subdued. There had been a fatal shooting in Bud's Bar a few days before, and most everyone was getting ready to go to the funeral...
...shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch, hung their Chicago-type shoulder holsters on their hips cowboy-style...
Hopelessness. Six months later, alone in Moscow, Clara bore a son, who was named Nicholas. Nervously keeping in touch from London as the months went by, Alf Hall watched Moscow's colony of 34 British brides dwindle to six. Eighteen somehow got out of Russia; ten divorced their husbands and melted back into the Russian throng; two would not get divorces, but did not want to go abroad; three simply disappeared. One of these three was kidnaped as she left a movie at the U.S. embassy and was whisked off to prison on unstated charges. Another...
Last May, when the Soviets were looking for small ways to prove how peace-loving they intended to be, the Russian embassy in Ottawa got in touch with Alf Hall. They told him to swear to a declaration that he still wanted to live with Clara and that he could support her. Last week, after seven years, Clara got her visa. It was hailed by the British press as a "new Soviet conciliatory gesture to Britain," as the Russians meant that it should be. But Alf and Clara had no concern for such talk. Clara called him from Moscow before...
...spreading an unfounded rumor: Roosevelt's pet Scottie, Fala, had been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...