Word: asking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hackett knows as well as any of us that any effort to describe an international showdown between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. leading to world war can call to its aid only hypothesis and speculation, not prediction and calculation. Nevertheless, one can ask of our "top-ranking NATO generals and advisers" at least a little understanding of the international power structure they seek to preserve...
...tall (6 ft. 1 in.), handsome man who speaks slowly in a deep voice, Donovan applied so even an editorial hand at Time Inc. that his former editors had to ask him last week just what his party politics were. His reply: "Independent with conservative leanings." In the last election he voted for Carter...
...doesn't this country have leaders like Roosevelt any more? some Americans wistfully ask. Nostalgia, of course, obscures the tremendous dissension and even hatred that were aimed at F.D.R. in the White House. Still, figures of his size may now be obsolete. The era of great individualists came to an end with Lyndon Johnson, and we are still trying to adjust to the new reality. Johnson lost two wars?the one in Viet Nam and the one against poverty; he demonstrated, among other things, that the resources of the U.S. are finite, a new and chastening realization for Americans...
...civilian leaders. Norwegian Prime Minister Odvar Nordli stressed that the U.S. had made no formal request for listening stations or spy plane flights; he also pointed out that SALT II seems to call for inspection only by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. If the two signatories to the treaty should ask a third party to verify compliance with restrictions on missile modernization, then, said Nordli, "Norway ought to be willing." Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund was also critical of the position taken by the Defense Ministry, which has traditionally been more hawkish than the rest of the government. Said a ranking Oslo...
...very word alienates the victim from ordinary life. One pair of friends, when told, sink into embarrassed silence, making Ryan feel that he has committed "some unpardonable gaffe." Colleagues and publishers cannot be trusted: "Somebody's bound to say," he notes, " 'Well, we really can't ask Ryan to do this article or count on him to finish this book, because the poor bastard's got cancer.' " Later on, there are the unbearable pain and disfiguring side effects of powerful drugs. Cushing's syndrome, a side effect which Ryan suffered, is particularly excruciating...