Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street; the U.S., they claimed, has been bulldozed by the Russians. President Ford reacted by replacing the word détente in the diplomatic vocabulary with "peace through strength." All U.S. embassies were advised that the change was no mere wordplay; the U.S. was indeed taking a tougher stand...
Even in defeat, Reagan has affected the President's strategy, moving Ford to the right on many issues. The President has tried to make his Soviet policy sound tougher by purging the word detente. In Florida he sought to attract votes from Cuban Americans by denouncing Fidel Castro as an "international outlaw." This ploy failed; Cuban Americans voted heavily for Reagan because they correctly saw him as more anti-Castro than Ford...
...attacks on Kissinger had happened three years ago, he has confided to his closest friends, he is not at all sure he could have taken it. He is a tougher man today. He has seen a President leave office, the Viet Nam War fail, the U.S. retreat from foreign obligations. Sometimes late at night when he is mellow he chuckles that he may be the only disciple of John Kennedy ("support any friend, oppose any foe") left in town, a double irony since critics like Senator Henry Jackson accuse him of being too soft on the Soviets...
...Hampshire's cities and towns, spent close to the legal maximum of $200,000, and made more than 200 stops in 17 days of polished politicking. Friendly crowds applauded his calls for an end to unbalanced federal budgets and for more spending on defense and tougher bargaining with the Soviets. Even his ill-considered proposal to transfer many federal social-welfare programs to state and local governments-he estimated the shift would cut the federal budget by $90 billion-was popular with many voters...
Former Air Force Staff Sergeant Steve Kiba, held by the Chinese for 32 months during the Korean War, is even tougher on Patty, though some of his own experiences seem to echo hers. To disorient American flyers, their captors kept moving them from cell to cell, from prison to prison-a pattern that suggests the S.L.A., perpetually on the move. For nine months the P.O.W.s were not allowed to bathe. In one session, Kiba was asked the same question for 18 hours straight. What Patty Hearst went through, he says disdainfully, was only "a miniature, a sample." And any physical...