Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three reached Moss, and all blacked out because of the motionless, foul air. None was able to make a head-first descent and keep an oxygen mask over his face. Finally a tiny (5 ft.) printer from Derby named Ron Peters, 25, got close enough to be able to touch the trapped man's shoulder but began to gasp for air, had to be pulled up fast. On being revived with oxygen, Peters said: "I'll have another go.'' This time he managed to tie a hemp rope around Moss's chest. Slowly but strongly...
With the will of the late Vincent Astor (TIME, Feb. 16) waiting for probate, the temporary administrators of the estate petitioned Dutchess County, N.Y. surrogate's court for help on a little problem in part created by Philanthropist Astor's uncanny financial touch. The request: permission to invest earnings of the mammoth estate (at least $100 million), which is burgeoning at the rate of more than $200,000 a month...
...often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced her departure from Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet...
...feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster is crumbling, the paint is flaking, and the roof leaks. But it still does what great architecture is meant to do: touch the heart and enlarge the vision...
...world is too much with them. La Alba's common touch has drawn deep frowns from the Queen, and to save Goya's neck, the duchess renounces his attentions and ships him back to Madrid. Feverish at the thought of her fickleness, he churns out the agonized, hellborn Caprichos. In the end, the lovers are briefly, sentimentally reunited at the duchess' deathbed...