Word: brinkmanship
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...Cold War. Underlying the U.S.'s firmness was a conviction that, however tough he might talk, whatever steeliness he might display in brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev would not, at the showdown, risk global war. A war was on, but it was the old war of nerves...
Pollock's painting, said the Times, is "almost an act of spiritual brinkmanship . . . Like Pope's spider, he feels along the line." The Sunday Times's John Russell, who had scoffed at Pollock in the past, now praised "the great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly...
John Foster Dulles, whose brinkmanship has kept the world on edge during...
...nominated Khrushchev in your Nov. 25, 1957 Letters column, and he was your Man of the Year for 1958. This year I nominate John Foster Dulles. His "brinkmanship" appears to have paid...
This shrewdly timed proposal was designed for that ready audience that thinks a summit talk can settle everything, and refuses to believe that Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down...