Word: tit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy evolved during the week, it became increasingly evident that future raids against North Viet Nam will not be carried out on a strict tit-for-tat basis-a dubious strategy that has deprived Washington and Saigon of the initiative. Thus the war in Viet Nam has taken on a brand-new dimension-and can never again be quite the same...
...audience never really believes that the robust Quinn is an aging, frightened, sycophantic shopkeeper, or that Ingrid Bergman could be so cruel. She is more martyr than Medea, and thus the film's climax-appropriately altered -turns its grand vindictive triumph into a puny game of tit...
...target: the big staging center of Tchepone, which has an airfield. The purpose would be to put Hanoi on notice that the U.S. was ready to do more if necessary. If that didn't work, the next step would be bombings inside North Viet Nam. First would come tit-for-tat reprisals: if the Viet Cong sabotaged an oil dump in the south, there would be immediate destruction of a similar installation in the north. From there, if need be, there would be general punishment of North Viet Nam from the air; one reported plan calls for bombing, after...
...began his career as a country curate, but was drafted by the Bishop of Dijon for a team of priestly commandos who specialized in street-corner evangelism. He learned to give free-thinking hecklers tit for tat. "You talk a lot about God, but we've never seen him," one yelled at him. "Prove to us he exists." Answered the canon: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Nevertheless, it exists...
...what matters fall "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of the U.S. and outside the scope of the World Court. Called the Connally Amendment (after the late Tom Connally, U.S. Senator from Texas), this reservation limits the U.S.'s adherence to the World Court.* And under the reciprocity, or tit-for-tat principle of international law, the Connally Amendment gives every nation involved in a dispute with the U.S. the right to claim the same sort of "domestic jurisdiction" hedge if the U.S. submits the case to the World Court...