Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Military persuasion, though used intermittently, has in recent crises begun to bear fruit. Despite making little head-way with the hostages, the Reagan Administration successfully defended U.S. economic (oil and shipping) interests in the Persian Gulf by dramatically stepping up the presence of the Sixth Fleet there...
...even though the heart may not have changed, the pressures and restrictions brought to bear on it have surely done so. The whole thrust of Shakespeare's play, after all, is that "lovers and madmen have such seething brains," that lovers, in short, are too full of folly, too much aflame, too rich in their imaginations. Nowadays, often, our problem seems just the opposite. Prudence makes us measure out our hearts with coffee spoons, and discretion is the better part of Valium. Love has always been a messy affair, and that is precisely why it cannot be easily legislated. Make...
...official, is "a very nice man, but he doesn't know anything." The Bahamas, says a source close to the government, tried to dissuade the U.S. from naming Hecht as Ambassador, but now that he has been selected "there ain't nothing much you can do, just grin and bear it." And although Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke went out of his way to praise nominee Sembler, his choice of words was less than stirring. Sembler "has taken great pains in recent weeks," said Hawke, "to acquaint himself with Australia...
...Place de la Concorde, once the site of the dreaded guillotine. Attended by a crowd of 500,000 and beamed to a worldwide TV audience of 700 million, the $15 million "opera-ballet" by French advertising whiz Jean-Paul Goude featured Scottish pipers and Senegalese drummers, a white bear skating on an ice rink carried by Soviet sailors, and a contingent of Chinese pushing bicycles and holding aloft a banner that read WE SHALL CONTINUE...
...eloquent speech at the Karl Marx University in Budapest. In front of Gdansk's Lenin shipyard, he told cheering Poles, "America stands with you." While offering lavish praise for the courage shown by Poland and Hungary, he avoided baiting the Soviet Union, a sensible strategy for dealing with a bear that for the moment seems unusually amiable...