Word: tat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried about having to move out, and about keeping her building clean, but she didn't really believe tat any of it connected with the strike at Harvard...
Nixon seems reluctant so far to consider a unilateral U.S. scale-down, worrying those who fear that he may lose an opportunity for lowering the level of the killing by insisting on a formal tit-for-tat agreement with Hanoi. Such critics of Nixon's seeming tough stance tend to overlook the fact that the President, after all, has reacted quite mildly to the renewed offensive. Though they may include policymakers within Nixon's inner circle, the President's detractors come from the Johnson Administration, notably former Defense Secretary Clark W. Clifford and Ambassador Averell Harriman. They are believed...
...economy and damage its deteriorating trade position. Last year Ford lost 1.2 million man-hours to "unofficial" walkouts, often led by only a handful of professional soreheads. Lately the company has hoped to buy its way out of the strike nightmare by offering its workers a simple tit-for-tat: extra money for no wildcat strikes. The result is a crippling strike against the no-strike clause...
...Soviet Union issues the Brezhnev Doctrine. Why? The U.S., in 1823, announced to the world the Monroe Doctrine to support our own intervention, imperialism, and hands-off policy in this hemisphere. The Russians are simply learning from their equally ambitious counterpart how to deal with troublesome neighbors. Tit for tat...
...under Escoffier, and met Fabian socialists; he moved on to Paris in 1917. "The French left," says Lacouture, turned "an angry patriot into a modern revolutionary." Setting himself up as a retoucher of photographs and a painter of "Chinese antiquities" manufactured in France, Ho changed his name from Nguyen Tat Thanh to Nguyen Ai Quoc-"Nguyen the patriot." A wraithlike figure "always armed with a book" (Zola, Shakespeare, Dickens, as well as Marx), he was nicknamed, unaccountably, "little M. Ferdinand...