Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School was the Rev. Lloyd A. Foreman, 34, a Methodist minister. Walking his small daughter into the school, Foreman was shoved by the mob. "Don't touch me," he snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle, a worker in the New Orleans sewerage and water commission, guided Yolanda to safety while Daisey Gabrielle, swinging...
Gary Borchard, who will have to do a big part of the Crimson's scoring if they're going to win many games this year, regained his touch with a 14-point night. Joe Deering, the speedy backcourt man, also had 14 against Holy Cross and now leads the team with 24 points...
This weakness was not in evidence in the allegro molto movement of Opus 110; Mr. Fischer's touch was alternately feather-light and hammer-heavy, in the right places. Things went down-hill from there on in, however. The slow movement lacked nuances of expression, and the final fugue was marred by a memory lapse, which, though not a fatal flaw in itself, may have caused the pianist's failure to inject the called-for nuovovivente. Still, the tight-knit cluster of highly emotional notes which closes the Sonata was very impressive...
...TIME reported Murrow "bedded down with pneumonia" on election night in line with CBS's own statement that he had developed a "touch of pneumonia." TIME stands by its more general diagnosis, to wit: that CBS is no longer wholly responsive to Murrow's ideas and does not always use him to best advantage...
...assured him that the army was firmly behind a French Algeria; he was told not to take seriously De Gaulle's talk of "self-determination," since it was just "a maneuver to get past the United Nations debate on Algeria." As an intelligence officer, Gardes was in close touch with the leaders of the January uprising, and thought he was speaking the truth in promising them army backing...