Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years intelligence operatives in Moscow and Washington have tended to regard "peaceful coexistence," and more recently detente, as a continuation of the cold war by other means. Spies have used the proliferation of official contacts between East and West to move back and forth, and counterspies have reacted accordingly. Ever since a Soviet-American student exchange program was established in 1958, the FBI, which is responsible for counterespionage in the U.S., has been on the lookout for agents of the Soviet secret police, or KGB, operating undercover as visiting students and scholars...
Leaders of Begin's conservative Likud coalition correctly argued that Israel was overdue for an economic cold-water treatment of some sort. In the wake of the 1973 war, Jerusalem's annual balance of payments deficit has ballooned from about $1 billion to $2.6 billion this year, causing total foreign indebtedness to soar to more than $10 billion. Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year...
...have been the product of Irish scribes working in a community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will...
...fury with talk of her sexual attraction for Kennedy. It may well have been one reason why Lee's free-floating rage finally settled on the President. That is a compelling notion - more so than many of the conspiracy theories that depersonalize Oswald by pointing to some cold-blooded organization with a hired gun. The truth may be appallingly more human...
...team has stood around outside in cold air for two hours before its game, if its top scorer doesn't get a goal, and if its opponents keep it hemmed in its own half for much of the first 40 minutes of play, can that team really be expected to win? If that team is the Harvard women's soccer squad it can, as the Crimson demonstrated Friday, capping what coach Bob Scalise called a "super year" with a 2-0 shut out over Yale...