Word: feelers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of British and French forces. What Kvitsinsky meant by equal reductions on the American side was cancellation of the entire NATO deployment. The U.S.S.R., however, would be able to keep at least 120 SS-20s trained on Western Europe. The U.S. was not about to accept this feeler. Said a U.S. official: "It's still zero for us but not zero for them." Moscow leaked its version of the discussion in Bonn to muddy the upcoming Bundestag debate...
...observing his own family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that his reaction to the first feeler was laughter. He said...
...levels," declared Brezhnev. "We are prepared to have this dialogue." The initiative was an apparent attempt to lower the temperature of recent East-West relations, and it caught Western analysts by surprise. Secretary of State Alexander Haig said that the U.S. was "very interested" in the summit feeler, but added cautiously that "we need to study this very, very carefully...
Instead of an extended instrumental introduction, Wild Planet's first song, "Party Out of Bounds," is as simple as the average surprise party. They ring the doorbell, yell "Surprise!" and get kicking with a driving rhythm and some quick lyrics. The group no longer needs that lead-in feeler to set you up for the "unusual" elements that characterize their music...
...flee this bunch fast enough; yet, pity the smug chuckler who patronizes this family: "You New York-Dutch-descended, probably wrong-Strauss-loving officer of some music society or civic uplift group," he snaps. "I'd like a peek at some of your Rorschachs, you old sofa-crack feeler, you. Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer. You secretary-treasurer...