Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good a companion and too pretty to go dying like that for a romanticism that she was always half afraid would slip away from...
Carter largely failed to exploit Ford's slip during the debate. But next day he called Ford's remarks "absolutely ridiculous," and his staff considered preparing a series of radio commercials to be beamed primarily at ethnic communities. Chortled Carter Political Director Landon Butler: "We couldn't have picked a better ethnic coordinator than Ford...
...difference between Watergate and the sex scandals of Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays, Mrs. Mondale said: "The issue is Watergate or waterbed. The Democrats do it to their secretaries, but the Republicans do it to the country." Today she hides her head in her hands when asked about the slip and says, "It was totally out of character for me-it was naughty...
...Syrians responded with a fierce artillery and rocket barrage from their positions in the Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...
That was certainly evident in the area of foreign policy. On the last leg of Schlesinger's trip, an interpreter made a possibly telling slip by announcing: "We welcome Dr. Kissinger." Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality...