Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schell's optimism and self-conscious naivete are clearly heartfelt, but they do not alone make policy, and the author's bouts of wishful thinking only underscore the incompleteness of the more complete proposals. They also beg the two crucial questions that Schell leaves unanswered; namely, how does one convince a country to abandon all its weapons? and, once Schell's plan is put into effect, how do we make a clean break with our policy of deference, a policy that he has convincingly argued always carries the threat of nuclear holocaust...
...colorful then as St.-Tropez, and as dirty by Sunday evening as Coney Island." Confused and lonely, Madden stalks the deserted streets and dunes by day and repairs in the evening to a local restaurant, where he sits in the bar and drinks too much. He is conscious of his new status as an unaccompanied stag and approves of the fear the waitress seems to feel in his presence: "In the days when I used to be a bartender, I had watched over a few customers like myself. They never bothered you until they did. Then the room could...
...least, Karnow finds the public and Congress much more conscious of foreign policy matters today than they were in 1964, when 16,000 military advisors were stationed in Vietnam and the U.S. government was spending half a billion dollars a year on operations there...
...Kaidanov who coaches the men's team at Penn State, where she is enrolled on a full athletic scholarship. Kaidanov, she says, is teaching her the why of fencing. "Mine has always been a mental game, as fencing has to be, but I've never been as conscious as I am now. My weapon," she says with satisfaction, "is penetrating the target more accurately...
...stuck with one for nine. In 1979 Los Angeles drivers were racking up 200 million miles a day. In 1983 the total number of registered vehicles in Los Angeles County was 5,119,194. Motoring gamely along, an exhaust-pipe taste gathering about the teeth, one is self-conscious of erring in a world of gorgeously maintained 1965 Ford Mustang convertibles...