Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dripped with insincerity. He suggested such "neutrals" as Belgium and Japan, ignoring the newly-created United States criterion that an acceptable site must have adequate communications facilities for both sides. Conspicuously, Rusk's ten did not include Paris, the only Western capital with which the North Vietnamese are in touch and which they might accept...
...feel that the way to get kids home is amically," Callaway said. "We make every attempt to get in touch with the parents, to counsel the kids, to achieve reconciliation...
Washington was criticized later for this performance, but it is clearly in character for him. He is not a politician but a bureaucrat and technician. He was not elected to office but appointed. As a result he has not been forced to keep in touch with the people of the black ghetto, and he has not kept in touch with them. They have never fully trusted him, and after the King Weekend, they will trust him even less...
...asked. Matter-of-factly, he told little rolypoly Sgt. Brown to take me to Lieut. Johnson. Brown told me he'd kick my teeth in if I kept agitating. He was very paranoid. I smiled condescendingly in the best Harvard tradition, secure in the knowledge that they can't touch you. Lieut. Johnson asked me what I was there for, and I told him--"Nothing." He promptly sent me off to rejoin my group in Test Room...
...Honesty and self-confidence are basic. You should expect to have a good time. You ought to be prepared emotionally even for delinquency classification. If you are, they will know that they can't touch you, and that inspires both fear and respect. It may seem difficult, but rarely is a man presented with such a clear cut opportunity to demonstrate his integrity