Word: cordials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were also some strangely discordant notes in Moscow. Just one day after Andropov held his cordial get-together with Bush and Shultz, Georgi Korniyenko, first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, blasted the Reagan Administration at a lunch in honor of 234 U.S. businessmen who had come to Moscow to discuss East-West trade. Speaking in English and without notes, he launched into a 90-minute attack on the Administration that seemed to reflect all the grievances of the Kremlin over the past three years. Korniyenko lambasted Washington's trade sanctions and its policy toward Eastern Europe, but reserved...
Though Zia and Gandhi carefully steered clear of such thorny topics as the India-Pakistan territorial dispute over Kashmir and the Soviet invasion of nearby Afghanistan, both leaders seemed politely pleased with the talks. Gandhi called them "cordial." Zia pronounced them "excellent." Not exactly torrid reviews. But given the decades of cold enmity between the two countries, any hint of warmth is historic...
...Cabinet portfolios. Among those shifted were a number of ministers identified with efforts to "Canadianize" ownership of industry. The Prime Minister had an unusual private chat with 21 top U.S. businessmen who were invited to Ottawa to discuss the local investment climate. The meeting was cordial, and, said First National Bank of Boston Chairman Richard Hill afterward, "we had a good explanation of why we are the way we are. We learned...
...also warned Kenyatta that, if he did not take the group's advice, they might "take other measures available to us which would have a more direct effect and which would not be as cordial as this note...
Dickens and Thackeray warred warily for years-as only competing authors can-over implied slights and suggested injuries. But this feud also disintegrated in conciliatory mutters and a handshake. So it goes too often. Even the Hatfields and the McCoys are said to be on cordial terms these days. Who knows but that in the dank, unhealthy future lies the collective rapprochement of Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer-all hugging wildly or nodding demurely in disgusting displays of propriety? One can hardly rely on anything...