Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past vacations, President Eisenhower has always kept in close telephone touch with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This time he did not talk to Dulles, despite the revolution in Indonesia, the realignment of Arab powers in, the Mideast and the critical problem of U.S.-British mediation between France and Tunisia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On past vacations, Cabinet members have shuttled to and from Washington to see Ike. This time none visited the vacation point...
...month, is writing the story of his life. Getty has his own explanation: "There are plenty of capable people in my companies who know the Stateside oil business. But almost nobody in the U.S. knows anything about Middle Eastern oil. I stay over here to be in close touch with my Middle Eastern oil business...
Swarming into Paris last week for the spring collections, fashion writers and buyers had a single sentimental question: How would the house of Dior do without Dior? It hardly seemed possible that shy, spectacled Yves Saint-Laurent, only 21, would have the master's touch. But after weeks of work and a $200,000 outlay, Saint-Laurent was more than ready...
...most promising approach to thermonuclear power, but unfortunately the pinched current wriggles so violently that it tends to slam in millionths of a second against the walls of its container. The trick, a difficult one, is to make it stand still as long as possible and not touch the walls...
...window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic but only on the surface. Sansom is a real bloodletter. Suicide, madness and irreparable loss are the themes of other stories, and in each case the atmosphere is created with the soft, ghostly touch of a man who could feel at home in a haunted house...