Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday, the President was to deliver a major address before the General Assembly, his third appearance at the U.N. Though Reagan planned to touch on a number of world trouble spots, White House aides expected him to refrain from finger pointing and instead express confidence that progress can be achieved through good-faith negotiations. The second half of his speech was to be devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals...
...recently as last July, polls gave Richardson, 64, a veteran of four Cabinet posts, a seemingly unbeatable lead of nearly 30 points. But his 15-year stint in Washington left him out of touch with the changing Bay State electorate, and his lusterless campaign failed to catch fire...
After the briefing, Reagan decided to go ahead with a scheduled campaign trip to Iowa, on the grounds that he could easily keep in touch with the situation in Beirut. Throughout the day, he spoke of the bombing as "a cowardly terrorist act" and described it as "another painful reminder of the persistent threat of terrorism in the world." When asked whether he was satisfied with the security at the Beirut embassy, the President replied, "As much as I know about it, yes. I think if someone is determined to do what they did, it's pretty difficult...
...swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light and shadow remain to tease the imagination. If he had never gone beyond the skill displayed in these early efforts, the world might not have recognized Calvino; but the touch of the born storyteller is here all the same...
...Diary of a Good Neighbor-the memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected it without recognizing Lessing's touch. A third, remarking that the style bore a resemblance to Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing's, recognized the real author at first glance...