Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers at the Elbe River in April 1945 faded rapidly from American minds as the U.S.S.R. moved to consolidate its control over the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said...
...latest uptick comes because arms-control talks have broken down and the arms race is intensifying. "It is not only a question of the numbers of nuclear weapons," wrote the Bulletin's editor in chief, Bernard Feld. "More ominous is the inclination of the leaders of the nuclear powers to talk and act as though they were prepared to use these weapons...
...Bernard Sinsheimer...
...Bernard Fridman...
...George Bernard Shaw...