Word: touch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Driving a Wedge. Indeed, when North Viet Nam wants to sit down at the negotiating table, it can communicate its desire directly to the U.S. within a matter of hours from any number of world capitals. U.S. Ambassador to Burma Henry A. Byroade has been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want...
...prevent tourists from going outside the Western Hemisphere is ... a shocking infringement on individual rights," Haberler says. He also opposes the measures because they would restrict international trade, and, by discriminating against Europe, "add a strong touch of economic warfare...
...Harvey." Or: "Dear God, Do good people have to die young? I heard my mommy say that. I am not always good. Yours Truly, Barbara." Though most of the children appear to conceive of God as a bigger-than-life human, a few seem to have a touch of the demythologizer about them. One seven-year-old penned:"Dear God, I am writing to you even though you can't write back I think and you are not a person. But I wanted to write anyway. Love, Karen" The letters, like children themselves, have a refreshing curiosity and candor...
...uptight head of the FBR who exhorts his faceless men (all under 5 ft.): "Kill him . . . the nation expects it ... think of your mothers." Coburn's most dangerous and ingenious pursuer, though, turns out to be an automated phone company and-the film's best real-life touch-it seems to be winning...
...audience in the U.S.; her novels have regularly made the bestseller lists. The Gabriel Hounds ranks a cut below her earlier works, but it still offers her familiar, quick, neatly joined narrative and travel-poster background (Lebanon this time). There is also a crumbling castle for just the right touch of the gothic, and an anti-anti-hero who is restless, wealthy, athletic, loves poetry, and drives a white Porsche. With his help, the heroine invades the castle in search of an eccentric great-aunt and finds instead a dope-smuggling operation. The young lovers rout the criminals and head...