Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refers to by its ancient biblical names, Samaria and Judea. To some U.S. officials, Begin's hawkish background now appears to be an asset. Since no one can accuse Begin of being soft on the Arabs, he can be as flexible in dealing with them as that old cold warrior, Richard Nixon, was in negotiating with Peking...
Earthy and gracious, Sadat finds the Europeans too cold and sophisticated, and much prefers Americans because of their egalitarian ways. "I like the way Americans put their feet up on the desk," he says. Sadat is a sensitive man who for years felt that Westerners disliked Arabs because of their dark skin. Says a member of the Egyptian Parliament: "Sadat has few fanaticisms. He's not against Jews, or against women. Maybe it's because of his own dark skin...
Everything made me happy in Mil Abu el Kom, even cold water in the winter when we had to leave at dawn for the flush canal?a canal filled to overflowing for no more than two weeks, our "statutory" irrigation period, during which all land in the village had to be watered. We worked together on the land of one of us for a whole day then moved to another...
...head, is to redesign Yale into "the Cadillac Seville of education"?still a luxury model, but smaller and presumably somewhat less costly to keep up. He must also restore harmony between faculty and administration, now deep in what Yale Historian Peter Gay claims is a "we and they" cold war, and calm town-gown tensions exacerbated by a blue-collar strike. He must also placate Old Blues disaffected partly by years of unvarnished rejection letters to their children...
...flaming headlines. The gimmick- a group of Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages to set in mo tion a decade too late...