Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson used his jet like seven-league boots, striding over the world with low-calorie root beer and Texas steaks in the galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home...
...part of Obi-Wan had no such psychological depth, he notes, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. "It had a touch of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings," he says. "It was a rather simple outline of a good man who had some magical powers. I tried to make him uncomplicated. I'm cunning enough now to know that to be simple carries a lot of weight...
...Evangelical Christians can understand the stark conversion of scapegraces and rapscallions, since the history of Christianity is full of agonizing personal reform (St. Paul. St. Augustine). Recalling the anguish of saints and mystics in their lifelong search for a flash from heaven or a sudden touch of grace, some Christians find it difficult to accept the validity of easy Evangelical contacts with God. Still, grace has always been amazing, and that judgment may be too harsh. Whether they wrestled mightily in their souls for a private sense of the divine presence or slipped salvation on as easily as a glove...
Auto sales, a mainstay of the economic expansion, weakened in the final 20 days of November. The Carter Administration, in its first year in office, displayed what often seemed to be a fumbling and unsure touch in dealing with the economy. For example, the President has vowed to shun wage-price controls or even guidelines but has yet to proclaim any strong anti-inflation policy. Indeed, he has taken several actions, including signing into law a huge increase in the minimum wage, that will raise prices...
...George is concerned, these ventures are like trips on the Andrea Doria. Then a simple misunderstanding puts him in touch with the recently divorced Jennie Malone (Anita Gillette). The deftness, charm and earned intimacy of the pair's telephonic courtship would put Simon in a playwrights' hall of fame if one existed. George and Jennie meet, and love blooms at first sight, a sight for glad eyes since Gillette is an actress of such beguiling, womanly warmth that glaciers would melt at her approach...