Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss's technique was to keep in close touch with all factions of the party, ranging from Alabama Governor George Wallace on the right to Black Caucus leaders on the left, and try to maintain a scrupulous neutrality among the jockeying presidential hopefuls of the party. A resolute pragmatist, Strauss was lukewarm at best about some of the party reforms proposed by the liberals, but backed them because he sensed that they were supported by a broad majority of the party...
...body suits, platform boots and decadence where I found an image of womanhood that has relevance for the times we live in and the times to come: Sensitive to the world around them, aware of their own abilities to change that world, confidently and forcefully sexy, and completely in touch with the natural fact about life: the world must be better for our children...
...fiscal year and said he would settle for a spending total of $302 billion. As layoffs and unemployment continued to spread alarmingly, he promised a press conference this week to explain his economic policies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). To quiet grumbling from the Hill that he has drifted out of touch, Ford met with a range of congressional leaders both to talk economics and explain the SALT agreement tentatively reached with the Soviet Union. In an effort to persuade more draft evaders and deserters to respond to his flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional...
...elected last May. Now the French are wondering what he meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily Le Monde published some rumors, adding that the Elysee denied them all. Still, nobody denies that while Giscard's family lives...
According to Peter Mead, a vice-president of Hunneman and Company, the firm that manages Harvard's real estate in the Boston area, Land-Vest got in touch with Hunneman after seeing an article about the Putnam estate in the Vineyard Gazette. "A few other developers showed an interest, but when they found out about that insidious Kennedy bill they backed off," Mead says. "We offered the property to some bigger Boston developers, but they weren't interested...