Word: decks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary Shultz has a different deck of cards than I had," Kissinger told TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst in Washington last week. "When I was out there, the Israelis had the Egyptian Third Army surrounded in the Sinai and their army was pressing at the gates of Damascus. In addition, you now have a pair of extremely tough guys in ((Prime Minister Yitzhak)) Shamir and ((Foreign Minister Shimon)) Peres." Tougher than the U.S. might like, according to Kissinger. "Shultz doesn't know it, but it's in the nature of things that the Israelis won't settle until everyone...
...loose satellites to his own. Now he writes to them, phones at regular intervals, actively seeks their company. Old friends are Chaucerian, the Captain declares; the tolerance is wide, the ironies gentle. No gassed-up urgencies, no panic, no competitiveness. You stand with them shoulder to shoulder as on deck, looking out at a time that you at once control and do not control, hearing the footsteps of the young gaining ground while you go about the business of nursing elders or burying them...
...state and, for the Democrats, not even a shred of secrecy about each participant's vote. Confusion, even chaos, is likely. In years past, there have never been fully accurate tallies of exactly who the Iowa caucus attendees supported. But like compulsive gamblers playing with a 47-card deck, the press and conventional wisdom makers will somehow manage to anoint winners, belittle losers and quickly rejigger the odds for the Feb. 16 New Hampshire primary and beyond. In a year with no cutting issues or commanding front runners, Iowa looms larger than ever as it gets ready to bless...
...tape had recorded gunshots, then the sound of pounding on the cockpit door and what the FBI termed the "unauthorized entry" into the flight deck. This was followed by scuffling and shouts in what one investigator described as "a terrible commotion." Finally came a high whine, presumably created by air rushing out of the pressurized cockpit through a bullet hole in a window or wall. Patricia Goldman, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's on-site investigators, said they could find "no apparent problems with the aircraft, frame, structure or engines" that would have led to the crash. Other...
...team this year against Army was totally different from last year," Peltier said. "Last year, it seems we were just a bunch of individuals on the pool deck. This year, we were more of a team...