Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former senator, who served eight years on the Senate intelligence committee, charged that the U.S. had bungled its policy towards Russia after the end of the Cold...
...Cold War may be over, but even supposed friends spy on each other. And tit-for-tat is the name of the game when it comes to exposing the other side's "assets." Moscow Tuesday announced that it had arrested a U.S. diplomatic official it "caught red-handed" trying to acquire military secrets. The incident follows the arrest earlier this month by the U.S. military of a Navy code-breaker, Petty Officer First Class Daniel King, 40, who faces charges of passing secrets to Russia. The Russians detained a junior embassy staffer identified by Interfax as Cheri Leberknight, a second...
...murk of their of post-Cold War relationship, it would be remiss of both Washington and Moscow?s intelligence services not to keep tabs on the other's military - after all, they remain potential long-term adversaries in a variety of scenarios. Tit-for-tat arrests and expulsions, however, are the melodramatics of a past era. These days U.S. and Russian intelligence services actually work closely together on issues such as terrorism and money laundering, and a quiet word or a discreet expulsion might have sufficed if, indeed, there was espionage under way. But that would be to miss...
...composed to sound casual. So, to stress the point that "high blueberries" must be looked for in swamps, Thoreau writes, "When I see their dense curving tops ahead, I expect a wet foot." He dresses his adages in homespun: "All kinds of harvestry, even pulling turnips when the first cold weather numbs your fingers, are interesting if you have been the sower and have not sowed too many...
...least so far: Bayonet drills. Fifty of us in an empty classroom, slashing, thrusting and smashing our way through imaginary commies, yelling "kill" with every move and tossing out the creeds in unison: "Blood, blood, blood makes the green grass grow, drill sergeant!" and "Kill, kill, kill with the cold blue steel...