Word: brooking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until the mid-'80s, the root cause of East-West tension -- the repressive, predatory nature of Soviet communism -- was nonnegotiable. The old men in the Kremlin refused to brook "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R.," and they would not accept meaningful constraints on Soviet international behavior. That left little to talk about, except how many warheads should be allowed to dance on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile...
...columny: succinctly melding fact and opinion in an unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling in the tanks and shooting the dissenters," he wrote. "The present Kremlin leader was not chosen to preside over the dissolution of the Soviet empire...
Midsummer is radical chiefly in its frivolousness. Where during the past two decades Peter Brook and other directors found dark depths of class and sexual conflict, Branagh rediscovers airy-fairy folly and anything-for-a-laugh delight. Freud has nothing to do with this version. Its inspiration is more on the order of Me and My Girl, and the song-and-dance finale was actually staged by that show's choreographer, Gillian Gregory...
Meith said the new lanes will surround several of the nearby ponds "making them totally useless to anyone" and lead to an increase in "the accumulation of oil and gas in Alewife Brook" because of highway run-off. She said this new pollution follows $140,000 from the MDC to clean up Alewife Brook...
...cold, overcast afternoon of Dec. 16, federal appeals court Judge Robert Vance received a package at his white-columned house in Mountain Brook, Ala., a Birmingham suburb. The return address indicated that the parcel had been mailed by Vance's old friend Senior Judge Lewis R. Morgan, who knew of Vance's passion for animals. "I guess Judge Morgan sent me some more of those horse magazines," Vance told his wife Helen. But as Vance eagerly opened the shoe box-size parcel, it exploded. Vance was killed instantly; his wife was seriously injured...