Word: tat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a swiftness born of practice, the Andean capital of La Paz returned to normal last week after a bloody three-day coup d'état that left 110 dead and 600 wounded. Little evidence remained of the bitter fighting, except for the assault vehicles guarding La Paz University, where students loyal to deposed President Juan José Torres holed up in a futile battle that ended when seven were killed. Torres himself went the way of many of his predecessors: he flew off to exile in Peru...
...roads in the world. We must be prepared to follow twists and turns and not try to get things on the cheap. It must not be imagined that one fine morning all the reactionaries will go down on their knees of their own accord. How to give "tit-for-tat" depends upon the situation. Sometimes, not going to negotiations is tit-for-tat, and sometimes, going to negotiations is also tit-for-tat. We were right not to go before and also right to go this time...
...shuffle their feet and tap their toes as energetically as the real estate salesman, the undertaker, the fat lady and the others in their class. In a steamy Manhattan studio,' an eleven-year-old boy wearing a Captain America sweatshirt stomps out a machine-gun-like rat-a-tat tap routine; near by, the blonde 40-plus winner of Coney Island's Glamorous Grandma contest, in black-and-white-checked hot pants, sharpens her rhythm...
...campaign against North Viet Nam when he was insisting in his 1964 re-election campaign against Barry Goldwater that "we seek no wider war." The documents leave no doubt that Johnson was being strongly urged by his subordinates to authorize such strikes on more than a tit-for-tat reprisal basis and that aircraft had been positioned to do so since before the Tonkin clash. Johnson flatly denies that he made such a decision before the election. Goldwater, who was sharply criticized for urging such attacks, claims he knew of the plans...
...Tat-Tat. After the experiences of Newark, Detroit and other cities, blacks are painfully aware that riots can be disastrously counterproductive. Some time ago, Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson observed sardonically: "Blacks can't win a shooting war when they are talking about bang-bang and the whites are talking about rat-tat-tat-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident...