Word: crescent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of British comedy, the plot would have been predictable. If a big American oil company decided to buy an unspoiled Scottish village (and its little crescent beach) in order to destroy it and then build a refinery, the natives would launch a counterstrike of sly and eccentric schemes designed to sabotage the outlanders' plans. How times have changed! In Local Hero, the residents, excepting one beachcomber holdout, are all eager to sell. It is the outsiders, succumbing to the charm of the place, who end up defending it against everyone's greedy impulses...
...press coverage of recent events is Lebanon contains one unfortunate error. Blinken rightly criticizes the press for using casually figures released by an organization headed by Yasser Arafat's brother. The name' of the organization, however, is not the Lebanese Red Cross, as Hlinken writes, but the Palestinian Red Crescent, which--as an arm of the PLO--is not affiliated with the International Red Cross Society. Jerome S. Forlinsky...
...acquire in the fall: "As you walk beside them after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts...
...miles, in the shade of palm groves, troops are setting up encampments. As tanks are unloaded, soldiers in the turrets pull goggles down over their eyes to keep out the clouds of dust. Like umbrellas opening, tents acquire taut shapes; in their midst, a white flag with a red crescent, the symbol of a hospital, is raised. Binoculars to his eyes, a brigadier looks out toward the horizon, where he hears bursts of artillery. His or theirs? "Ours," he replies, pointing in the direction of the enemy lines. "They are getting ready to attack again. You can smell battle...
...night the moon makes a perfect crescent, cradling a star between its points like an Arab flag. At 2 a.m. Israeli jets fly low over the hotel, creating astonishing booms. The ears ring, stunned. In the black sky two sulfurous flares glow sickly yellow, blaze momentarily, then disappear before an orange spray of machine-gun bullets...