Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington remained optimistic that Peking would not seek to capture Taiwan by force, although it had nothing but vague hints from the Communists to that effect. In fact, Taiwan's well-trained military, 474,000 strong and equipped with 316 combat aircraft, including F-5A/E interceptors, air-to-air and ground-to-ground missiles, is an effective deterrent for the present. Meanwhile, State Department experts were debating some of the options that Taiwan might now take. At an emergency meeting of the Nationalists' Central Committee last week one member even raised the prospect of playing a "Russia...
...little bureaucratic jargon I picked up. I don't know what it means." He and others learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about a type of radar: Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry-Phased Array Warning System...
...unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative than usual. By the time the first session broke up and the ministers put away their pocket calculators and journeyed in heavily guarded motorcycle caravans to dine at the air-conditioned palace of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the new price had been virtually accepted. "We chewed on those figures a little more," recalled Venezuela's Valentin Hernandez, "but as we reached for the chunks of lamb at Sheik Zayed's dinner, the price...
Intellectually speaking, G.B.S. was a great pass receiver. When astrodomed quarterbacks like Ibsen, Nietzsche, Darwin and Marx rifled ideas through the air, Shaw would snatch them and race down the field for dramatic touchdowns, spouting aphorisms and paradoxes as he went...
...Republican in upstate New York needs to raise money, he opens his front door, cups his hands in the autumn air, and shouts: "Hillary...