Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regulate dating. West Point decided to permit it, but only under Victorian restrictions. The Academy prohibits "P.D.A.s" public displays of affection), such as holding hands or kissing. One exception is formal dances, where the women change from their uniforms into regulation floor-length gowns, and some discreet touching goes on. Despite the best efforts of military misogynists, romance nonetheless has triumphed. TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan, who has been interviewing cadets at West Point, reports that about half of the 62 women who expect to graduate next May plan to marry male graduates of the Academy, even though the Army...
...first principle, Auden would probably have grudgingly liked this book. Biographer Charles Osborne, who knew the poet in his last years, glides easily over the surface of Auden's life. He slows down only for amusing anecdotes, witty remarks (chiefly Auden's) and occasional but discreet lists of who was sleeping with whom. A few of the subject's stomach spots are here, to be sure, but Osborne makes most of them look like beauty marks...
...were marvelous amateurs," sighs Margaret Sherman, a Norwalk, Conn., housewife who served in a counterintelligence unit in London and Paris. Donovan ignored the advice of the creator of James Bond, Author Ian Fleming, who as a British naval intelligence officer in 1941 described the ideal spy as middleaged, sober, discreet and experienced. Instead, Wild Bill sought out impatient young people who did not mind being bold or even "calculatingly reckless...
...officials the night before. She said she made "extensive efforts" to reach the NRC "but there was no one there, there was no emergency number and no 24-hour manning" like there used to be. An indignant Ray said she considered the situation "incomprehensible" and with a less-than-discreet reference to Three Mile Island, reminded the NRC that "emergencies do occur...
...Caribbean and elsewhere, claimed Castro last week, "we are being very discreet and trying hard not to embarrass Carter." He made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame...