Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mishaps and reverses everywhere. It is this real or feigned element of paranoia in Soviet policy that makes the current prospects confronting Washington so tricky. Even though one of the purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some geopolitical leverage on Moscow, he apparently felt confident that Moscow would not regard it as an anti-Soviet shift. Shortly after he surprised the world in mid-December by granting Peking full diplomatic recognition as of Jan. 1, Carter said reassuringly: "Our new relationship with China will not put any additional obstacles...
...President, moreover, felt that he had a right to criticize Moscow because it had signed the 1975 Helsinki accord. That agreement, among other things, calls for respect for human rights and a freer exchange of ideas and information between East and West. But Brezhnev interprets Helsinki very selectively. In his interview, he ignores the accord's provisions dealing with human rights and greater freedom while stressing the section that gives each signatory the right "to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems...
...biggest tax increase of any kind in history: $227 billion over ten years. As angry workers were reminded when they opened their first paychecks of 1979, the initial boost mandated by the new law took effect New Year's Day. The real impact for many will be felt later in the year, as Social Security payroll deductions that stopped in 1978 when an employee had earned $17,700 continue until he or she reaches $22,900. That person's total tax goes...
...concerned about how he would play," says Bleier, a running back who blocks like a lineman. "When he comes out fired up and cocky, our offense plays that way. But if he comes out tentative and unsure, we play that way too. So every day I asked how he felt." The answers were reassuring but unconvincing, until the morning of the game. Then Bleier and the Steelers got incontrovertible evidence that all was well with Terry Bradshaw, Louisiana cattle rancher and quarterback. "I saw him put a big old chaw of tobacco in his mouth, and if he could stomach...
...their pitchforks at the thought of today's complicated modern society, or of the broad role that Government plays in running it. By giving the Constitution new meaning, the judiciary has allowed it to keep pace with change, to meet what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called the "felt necessities of the time...