Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, Washington had summarily dismissed a Milosevic feeler. In an interview with United Press International, the Yugoslav President, while insisting he would "never surrender" to allied demands for a NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, set forth terms for ending the conflict, including his willingness to accept lightly armed U.N. monitors. But he would not abide a military peacekeeping force made up of his country's attackers, even if holding out means more air strikes. "One day [of bombing] is too much," Milosevic said. "But what choice do we have if NATO insists on occupying Yugoslavia? To that we will...
...stay viable. That means attracting more companies, and even in Minnesota the idea is too radical to prompt more than a kind of nervous interest. Then too, Minneapolis-St. Paul is somewhat unique because of its close-knit business community and well-educated work force. So far, the only feeler from out of state about establishing a similar plan has come from Des Moines, Iowa...
...consultant James Carville, had no sooner quit her job on CNBC and joined the Dole campaign than internal feuding over her role spilled into the open. And so after several days of needless distraction, Reed asked her to step down. Last week a longtime G.O.P. operative put out a feeler to author Peggy Noonan, who wrote Bush's climactic convention speech, to see if she would assist on some convention-related "planning." But the move was so gentle that Noonan didn't take it seriously...
According to Powell, David Gergen, presidential counselor, sounded him out about staying on for a third two-year term as Chairman, but Powell retired in September 1993 as he had planned. Then, on Dec. 18, 1994, Powell got his most serious job feeler yet: Clinton invited him to the residential quarters of the White House and told him Warren Christopher wanted to leave. Would Powell like the post? Powell politely declined, citing the need to finish the book and his desire to spend time with family. "Left unspoken were my reservations about the amorphous way the Administration handled foreign policy...
...them: men. It's a state of undeclared war, them hating us, men hating us no matter our age or who the hell we are . . ." Every male who makes an appearance in Oates' 328 pages of female-empowerment myth is a slimy, sweating, smelly brute, a rapist, a feeler, a hitter, a fascist. Here is a casual sample, describing a couple of apparently harmless guys on the street: "The two of them beefy big-bodied men with smallish heads, fleshy faces and restless eyes...