Word: touche
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...said. Casey, on the other hand, wrote to the committee that "I have no recollection that I ever received, heard of, or learned in any way of a set of papers which laid out the Carter debate plan." He told the New York Times that "I wouldn't touch [such material] with a ten-foot pole...
Without specifically mentioning the U.S. decision to send a naval flotilla to the coast of Nicaragua and some 5,000 troops to participate in military exercises in Honduras, De la Madrid warned the U.S. that regional stability might be endangered "by shows of force that threaten to touch off a conflagration." Reagan, who was dressed in a blue guayabera, reaffirmed the tough U.S. policy in Central America. "We believe people should be able to determine their own solutions," he declared, "and that's why we've responded to calls for help from certain of our Latin American neighbors...
...eight by his father: "I love poaching. It's a sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once I touch him he won't move. I slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick...
Neither Jim Palmer, 37, nor Tom Seaver, 38, will likely scale 300 victories, but they were dominant pitchers in their leagues and have three Cy Young Awards apiece to show it. Each also possesses more than a touch of glamour. A section of Palmer's adolescence was spent residing in the Los Angeles movie community, Beverly Hills, where his habit was to rise early hoping to observe Janet Leigh picking up the paper in her pink peignoir. Now Palmer can be seen in his underwear on billboards, but seldom in uniform on a mound. Pestered by various miseries, Palmer...
...hard-line comrades that he is tough enough to hold out for a summit on his own terms. Nor is it realistic to think that a productive summit can be convened around what are essentially secondary issues in the relationship, such as whether to open new consulates or install touch-tone dialing on the hot line. Those matters have their significance, but only when they are part of an overall improvement in relations. Similarly, high-level dialogue on cooperation in the Third World is possible only when there is a modicum of harmony between the First and Second. That depends...