Word: carding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once and for all the myth of "one China." At present, the subject is taboo on Taiwan, mainly because of fear of the violent reaction from Peking that would almost certainly follow such a move. The second would be a threat by Taipei to play its so-called Russian Card, seeking Soviet aid to balance the threat from China. President Chiang spent more than a decade in the Soviet Union and his wife Faina is Russian, but his animosity to Communism in any form makes this course seem unlikely. The third factor is Taiwan's continued refusal to negotiate...
When Vance returned to Europe in late December for his ninth meeting with Gromyko on SALT, the suspense was heightened by Carter's surprise announcement less than a week before of the opening of diplomatic relations with China. Now that the famed China card was finally on the table, would the Soviets up the ante in SALT? Brzezinski said absolutely not. Vance and some of his advisers were not so sure...
MUGABE: "Their last card...
...role of the U.S.: I think [the new regime] is going to appeal to the outside world as much as possible to recognize the result of the election no matter what it might be. This will probably be their last card. It will be a do-or-die offensive, with appeals to Britain and the U.S.-especially the U.S.*#151;and visits or promotions by conservative American Senators like S.I. Hayakawa and Jesse Helms...
Talk about embarrassing moments. There was Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal in San Francisco's tony Beethoven's restaurant with a hefty dinner bill, an expired Visa card and a waiter demanding extra identification for an out-of-state bank check. Blumenthal solved his predicament uniquely: producing a dollar bill, he invited the waiter to match the check signature against the neat W M Blumenthal inscribed on the greenback's lower right-hand corner...