Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of people employed by the Federal Government" but also to reduce the number of federal regulations. Every new regulation, he said, would have to "carry its author's name"-a tough order since so many directives are bounced from one bureaucrat to another. There was a touch of the hokey, too, in Carter's pledge to act as host of a call-in talk show that would be broadcast from the Oval Office. After the address, Carter told aides, "I'm pleased...
...hearing of the State Department admonitions on foreign short-wave radio, "we nearly cried with relief," Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "It was what we were waiting for. We think it has saved Sakharov; we're convinced they won't touch...
...Touch Not the Cat, Stewart...
...Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, 44, Carter's assistant for special-interest groups. Formerly vice mayor of Rochester, she is responsible for keeping Carter in touch with the people. Says she: "I am his ears, his eyes, his window." She is the only Northerner and the only outspoken liberal at Lipshutz's daily shape...
...miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold out a hurt hand for a kiss "to make it well...