Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...habits die hard, and former enemies may have trouble joining forces, even when their interests coincide. To many in Washington, the idea of allying with an intelligence service still aggressively seeking Western technology is anathema. As well-trained spies know, the cloak of friendship and cooperation may conceal the dagger of danger and deceit...
Words, and a dagger-sharp talent for choosing the right ones to turn tired propaganda into poignant exhortations or make diplomatic doublespeak sound incisive, are Hanan's stock in trade. Her colleagues at Bir Zeit University, where she taught English literature for 17 years, were always awed, and often overruled, by her command of the language. She could outtalk them as well in Arabic as in English. She has a good ear for saying the right thing the right way, says a member of the peace delegation -- not talking, as Palestinians are wont to do, out of two sides...
William's carefully chosen and meticulously directed choices bring the play up to date in a generally tasteful and effective manner. Macbeth delivers his "dagger soliloquy" under the influence of alcohol, and Shakespear's Porter becomes his soused bartender. Moreover, Birnam wood does not come to Dunsinane as camouflage of war, but rather through its use in the manufacture of the enemy's weapon...
...aides who shared their leaders' view of the world, Reagan and John Paul II refused to accept a fundamental political fact of their lifetimes: the division of Europe as mandated at Yalta and the communist dominance of Eastern Europe. A free, noncommunist Poland, they were convinced, would be a dagger to the heart of the Soviet empire; and if Poland became democratic, other East European states would follow...
...handle these things. He staged a dogfight with Muammar Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their main target: Gaddafi himself...