Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handful of contests remain most important. New Hampshire is particularly crucial to Muskie, who must win convincingly in his own backyard. Each candidate will need to carry one of the Midwestern states; Wisconsin is likely to be the major target. The Oregon primary is a key litmus. But most important is California; the winner there will carry the biggest delegate slate into the convention...
...Litmus Test. Once launched, however, the offensive is not certain of success. The Communist position has its weaknesses. Hanoi's Laotian and Cambodian holdings are very sparsely populated. In South Viet Nam the Communists hold nothing but such desolate regions as portions of the U Minh Forest and the A Shau Valley. The heavily populated and strategically important Mekong Delta and the eleven provinces around Saigon face no substantial military danger. While ARVN troops have performed disappointingly in some recent battles in Cambodia and Laos, the litmus test of the Vietnamization program is how they will defend themselves inside...
...their closest, England and France are a scant 18 miles apart. But the emotional gap is virtually infinite. Take, for example, the reliable litmus of crime. As two new films demonstrate, the accounts of evildoer and pursuant vary enormously with the turf. The favored French mode is the grittily realistic roman policier, in which the detective, like Simenon's Inspector Maigret, is presumed human, hence flawed. In England both criminal and captor implicitly play the gentlemanly hare-and-hounds game-a legacy of what W.H. Auden called the "guilty vicarage" tradition...
Higher Morality Catonsville, for the Berrigans, became something of a litmus for the responsiveness of the American "system." Until the trial, they maintained a kind of naive hope that their message, once heard, would vindicate their actions. In a forthcoming special issue of Holy Cross Quarterly devoted entirely to the Berrigans, Protestant Theologian Robert McAfee Brown tries to assess the symbolic importance of Catonsville. While most Americans bridled at a destruction of public records, Brown sounds a familiar?and simplistic?jeremiad of the antiwar movement: the act was intended as "a vivid reminder of what has happened to the collective...
...that event the country would be left without a supplier. Thus Israel wants the planes now, while it can still get them. At the same time, the sale, which has the support of sizable groups in both the House and Senate, is regarded in Israel as a kind of litmus test of U.S. intentions...