Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, put the Korean peninsula at the center of what may well be the most intensively militarized region in the world. The very existence of these enormous armed forces, in conjunction with the profound antagonism generated by three decades of division, increases the danger that any misstep could lead...
...more aware than Sadat of the precarious political path along which he is walking and the fateful consequences of any misstep. If war erupts anew, the canal would be quickly blocked. A prolonged deadlock in peace talks could eventually also spell the end of Arab moderation and possibly of Anwar Sadat as well. Balancing this threat, however, is a conclusion that Sadat reached long ago. The 1973 war may have restored Arab pride (even though, after initial successes, the Arab armies took a beating), but in the end peace is necessary to help Egypt's stumbling economy. Unless...
...Kennedy Center. Eunice's guests had come to see some song and dance by Barbra Streisand and James Caan, stars of the new movie Funny Lady, and to help boost the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation's Special Olympics for retarded children. The program provided one misstep after another for Today show Empress Barbara Walters, who stumbled on her way up to a stage and grabbed the first helping hand in sight. "When I looked up, I realized it was the President," said Walters. "If I had known it was the President beforehand, I probably would have slipped again...
Without a misstep or a false line, the author ensnares his writer protagonist Oki Toshio in an old love. Without quite admitting to himself why he is making the trip, the hero journeys alone from Tokyo to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the new year. In this city of shrines lives Otoko, with whom he had had a passionate affair 20 years earlier. She was a schoolgirl and he a young married man, and a child was stillborn from their love. For a time Otoko's grief unbalanced her. Toshio did not see her again...
Miki seemed to realize this last week when he said: "I cannot afford to make one misstep. Democracy in Japan is at stake...