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Word: tit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taurus. Another U.S. Plane will be shot down. After a secret three-day session of the National Security Council at Augusta, Georgia, the Administration will announce that the nation will scrap the old scheme of massive retaliation for a new program of, in Mr. Dulles' words, "tit for tat." No sign of the maids yet, but Bentinck-Smith shouts up that he thinks he has found a likely donor for the new theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick A Star, Any Star... | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Tit for tat is the watchword of the Brown-Crimson hockey series. Brown, with a 3 to 1 win in the teams' first meeting is due for the tat tonight...

Author: By David W. Coonea, | Title: Sextet Bows to Nassau, 3-1; Plays Brown Today at Lynn | 2/24/1953 | See Source »

...boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation's most famed restaurateurs and gourmets gathered to share with the master a simple dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white Muscadet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Heroic Stomach | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...million for the U.S., $4,650,000 for the British) for telephone & telegraph service between West Berlin and West Germany, as they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Besieged City | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...East-West trade should cease. At the same time, a diplomatic policy of tit for tat should be initiated: all the insulting restrictions which are applied to Western diplomats in Moscow should be applied to Russians in the West. The Russians will not think the worse of us for this treatment, nor be more likely to resort to war, since nothing can make them more hostile to us than they are at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ONE MAN'S LOOK AT RUSSIA | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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