Word: daggering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korean peninsula has always been a key to the stability of Northeast Asia. It is of vital concern to the Japanese, with over $1.5 billion worth of investments on the peninsula and the enduring feeling that Korea is "a dagger pointing at the heart of Japan." U.S. strategists, looking toward the post-Viet Nam era, are already talking about a Northeast Asia defense line, anchored in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. In all three countries, the U.S. has strong economic interests backed by formal mutual defense treaties...
...Smithies--who says he was most recently consulted by the agency, regarding a report on the future of the Vietnamese economy, last year--explains now. "For about ten years I'd go down there and review their papers on national economic matters: I've never been the cloak-and-dagger type. But naturally they made a big fuss about it," he concludes, with something close to approval. "That's good tactics...
...very happy to see Portugal remain in NATO as a thorn in the side of the alliance - not a cancer but a thorn." Portugal already is a thorn in the alliance's side. What worries the West is that it may eventually begin to feel more like a dagger...
...week and advised CIA Director William Colby that he planned to organize an association of retired intelligence officers to defend the agency. But younger employees have also been affected. In Washington, for example, some young analysts had joined the CIA only after assurances from recruiters that the cloak-and-dagger exploits of the cold war were a thing of the past. Now some of these idealistic employees are disillusioned. At the same time, CIA agents in Western Europe are worried that they can no longer count on headquarters to protect them. As a result, they are reluctant to mount...
...shining Navy combat jets parked five abreast, and beyond them, a row of Grumman Tracers with radar mounted like toadstools on top. Elsewhere are scores of F-4 Phantom IIs, looking like hooded hawks, their cockpit windows sprayed with a protective plastic, and squadrons of F-102 Delta Dagger fighter-interceptors...