Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening of The Right Stuff in Washington on Oct. 16, evidently recognizing that it would be unseemly to exploit the movie so blatantly. After all, it would just not do for a onetime astronaut, a guy who is decreed by Hollywood to have you-know-what, to display a touch of vainglory. - By James Kelly. Reported by Sam Allis/ Washington and Denise Worrell/Los Angeles
Using strategic nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union would be "an act of suicide," McNamara wrote, because it would touch off a chain reaction of escalating nuclear exchanges. The likelihood of annihilation makes "first use"-the option of initiating the use of nuclear weapons to repel a Soviet conventional attack-at best a weak stick. "The threat of [first use] has lost all credibility as a deterrent to Soviet conventional aggression," he wrote. "One cannot build a credible deterrent on an incredible action...
...Pomfret, Conn., then returned to Beirut as a professor at St. Joseph's University. He later headed the Jesuits' Middle East province (Lebanon, Syria and Egypt). "Father Kolvenbach is a classic Jesuit," says an official in Rome who knows him well, "studious, reserved yet militant, with that touch of the mysterious that characterizes the order." He is also an ascetic who, colleagues say, sleeps on the floor, clears dishes, carries luggage for guests and often walks six miles to say Mass for a group of nuns...
...this we knew nothing in 1972. Something called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was in full swing. But then, as now, it was as if we were feeling through a membrane: we could sense shapes, forms and fears, almost touch them. But we could not see through the membrane...
...impulse for speed was added the driving force of "struggle." In Yanan (see box), where the clean dry air is intoxicating and the heavens are close enough to touch, "struggle" had become doctrine. Nothing was impossible if his will could drive his people to "struggle against the mountains...