Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie tucked a hand-penned message into Jimmy Carter's evening reading "to keep the personal touch." In secret deliberations when the tide seemed to be running against the interests of President Kennedy or Johnson, Secretary Dean Rusk often would scribble a short plea on note paper and slip it unobtrusively to the man beside him. The message: "Don't make a decision now, Mr. President. Let me see you later." Henry Kissinger had a pact with Gerald Ford to meet at least a half-hour every working...
...certain professional distance. Muskie, for example, never called Carter "Jimmy," though others around the White House always did. Rusk was the only Cabinet member Kennedy addressed as "Mr. Secretary," and he took pains to nurture this special respect. "We were very close officially," recalls Rusk. "But I never played touch football with the Kennedys. I never got pushed into their swimming pool." Kissinger cannot remember ever going into the presence of Nixon at the White House without a coat...
Protection with a touch of chic...
...royal family asked me to design a unique gift for a fellow monarch," Bijan adds as he darts excitedly around his store (open by appointment only). "I wanted to make something so American. I wanted to design a gun that people who hate guns would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case...
...hoping for a shot-gun wedding and an escape from their dreary existence. But Mayo's motel bedmate turns out to be different sensitive, self-aware, and genuinely in love with an Italian stud tast becoming an admirable person as well. Winger is not only beautiful, but wonderfully in touch with the uneducated common sense and honesty of the character she plays...