Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giscard had words too for the leaders of the Gaullists in the government coalition who have accused him of seeking an alliance with the Socialists that would leave the Gaullists out in the cold. The President, in fact, had been hoping to create a broad centrist coalition stretching from moderate left to moderate right. In his speech, he denied having engaged in "obscure maneuvers." He declared: "Our efforts must be to extend, and I say clearly extend, the present [center-right] majority. The larger the crew, the farther the ship will go." The speech surely battered chances for any sort...
...implacable influence. By dispensing a raging blizzard, a driving rainstorm or even a sunny day, the weather tends to ameliorate the estrangements inherent in cultural divisions and social stratifications. Inspired by exceptional weather, otherwise immutable strangers suddenly find themselves in communion. In the spoken code, all those weathered cliches -"Cold enough for you?" "Good day for ducks, huh?" "Gonna be a hot one!" "What a day!"-mean the same thing: "We are, after all, in this boat together...
...arrived when he got there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic. Napoleon was done in twice by weather: once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreat from Moscow, later by the rain that bedeviled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: "A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky. sufficed for the overthrow of a world." In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible...
Anna Karenina is a story of contrasts, happiness against unhappiness, warmth against cold. It has been told well before, but, except in the book itself, of course, it has never been presented with such building strength and certain inevitability as in this production from...
Members of the American Communist Party, who never numbered more then one million, must have felt jilted by history. The beloved proletariat, so requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman. As the cold war closed in, Communists were once again looked on as the seducers of godless foreign power. "We ought to drop one of these automatic bombs on the Communists," said one Midwestern farmer during the early '50s. The prescription for homegrown Reds was McCarthyism, which threatened democracy more than the encapsulated cells of the American Communist Party...