Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge Communism in Grenada and Nicaragua was driven by the sting of Soviet contempt, his own sense of alarming U.S. military weakness and the need to demonstrate resolve. The Reagan who now reaches out for arms accords is convinced he is dealing from renewed strength and can afford a touch of magnanimity, or at least flexibility...
...also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend of Botha's and a ) leading foe of sanctions, who proceeded to put them in touch with the Foreign Minister on a cloakroom telephone...
Students often complain about feeling out of touch with the subjects they study. For James A. Anderson '86-'87, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator, it was the desire to see "the flesh and blood behind what I was learning" that prompted his enrollment in a language program at Nanjing University in China...
...articles on the Levin killing, Samuel G. Freedman of the New York Times observed that rich parents and poor parents are alike in their promiscuous freedom giving. The poor let their children hustle for subsistence. The rich buy them off. It is as if parents are afraid to touch the people they created; and in a sense this may be so. By the time parents are old enough to have adolescent children, they often are undergoing second-adolescent turmoils of their own. The elder teenager beholds the younger and sees his biography in the making -- tumultuous prelude to a tumultuous...
...parents really are afraid to touch their children, they must be afraid of these essentials too, as attitudes that confine their own free lives. They are afraid of the wrong things. Between parent and child there is no monster like silence. It grows even faster than children, filling first a heart, then a house, then history. The freedom children seek is the freedom from silence. The freedom they are given too often is the freedom of the damned, with which they may strangle themselves late on a summer night, in a city, in a park, where they have gone...