Word: brinksmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the U.S. and Iran? Though the U.S.'s cutoff of imports from Iran and its seizure of that nation's assets in U.S. banks was a necessary response to irrational provocations, the actions also transformed petrodollars and petroleum itself into even more dangerous weapons in economic brinksmanship. That, in turn, added a new and alarming element to the crisis...
Harvard QB Larry Brown started off the game displaying his usual brinksmanship at the helm as he led the Crimson on an 85-yard drive that culminated in a 25-yd. Gary Bosnic field goal...
...Humphrey were singled out, as if to demonstrate Washington's contempt for Vietnam. While the pair clearly deserves some sentence--pilfering government documents, after all, is not very nice--the whole affair smacks of Cold Warriorism, and jibes scarily with Carter's recent gung-ho reescalation of old-style brinksmanship in foreign policy...
...logs more hours in the batting cage than Stenhouse. His low key demeanor belies his flamboyant brinksmanship at the plate. Harvard pitcher Steve Baloff calls him "sudden Sten" because "I'll be quiet and then...
...baseball impressario of the 1930s and '40s, MacPhail earned the reputation of "the Barnum of baseball." His unrivaled brinksmanship led to the scheduling of the first night game in Cincinnati in 1935. As the wheeler-dealer G.M. of the Dodgers in 1938, MacPhail made a series of transactions that would in the present era probably have incurred the wrath of Kuhn. Back in '38, MacPhail put $50,000 down on the trading block to buy first baseman Dolph Camilli from the Phillies. MacPhail also purchased Pee Wee Reese from the Red Sox and along the way acquired the likes...