Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feminine Touch. In Lyons, France, bearded lady Mme. Maitre, after mislaying her safety razor, borrowed her husband's straightedge, shaved too close, cut her throat...
Gandhi's toes were blistered. As he walked the flower-strewn paddyfield paths of eastern Bengal last week, through lines of Hindus and Moslems who wept and knelt to touch his bandaged feet, other Hindus and Moslems in distant Bombay chopped at each other with long knives. Twenty-two people died in the Bombay riots, including some Untouchables who were caught in the middle...
People who think that the golden touch of their particular personality and the warmth of their sympathy would modify, to some important degree, the actions of the Soviet Government, are not only flying in the face of some of the most basic and unshakable of Russian realities. They are insulting the ideological firmness of men who have followed the sternest of doctrines since the days of their youth; followed it through extreme danger, through extreme hardship, and through the sacrifice of every other value known to human life. These men would not be grateful for the implication that they...
After one or two years at a Borstal like Lowdham, ex-delinquents are discharged by the governor "on license" for another year. During this probation they must keep in touch with members of the Borstal Association-adults who volunteer to help them find jobs, a place to live and the right kind of recreation...
Under the new plan, according to Stanley Lofchie '47, of the unit's Student Affairs Committee, students will register the titles of books they wish to sell with the AVC. Then those in search of particular volumes may learn where they can be purchased and get in touch with the owners. AVC, Lofchie emphasized, will not handle the books themselves but will only bring together the buyers and sellers...