Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be." By that time, all hope for a summit between Reagan and Andropov had passed. A final interview published under Andropov's name in Pravda offered no new counterproposal for breaking the deadlock. Instead, it repeated earlier calls for the U.S. and its NATO allies to "display readiness" to return to the situation that had existed before missiles were deployed in Western Europe...
...breathtaking landing, amid Florida's marshes and palmettos rather than the baked sands of California's Mojave Desert, was a stunning finale to a flight that was, at best, bittersweet: a dazzling display of the space shuttle's tremendous potential and yet a dismal reminder of the continuing frailty of technology in challenging the cosmos. The troubles ranged from the disastrous loss of two highly sophisticated communications satellites, valued in excess of $150 million, to a rash of lesser mishaps: a clogged toilet, the mysterious blowup of a ballyhooed navigational experiment, and a sudden case...
...borsch. Soviet TV noted only that failures were continuing to plague the Challenger on "a routine mission." For three days, not a word was uttered about the historic space walks, although an old canard was repeated: that the shuttle had been built for sinister military purposes. In a display of competition, Moscow announced last week that three cosmonauts had been sent off to reoccupy Salyut 7, the Soviet semipermanent space station. The cosmonauts successfully docked with Salyut 7 and settled in for what may be an attempt to eclipse the 211-day orbital endurance record set by the Soviets...
...readers to "accept what I write as an artifice. By intruding myself from time to time on the story I simply wish to remind the reader of his distance from the material of this novel, which I would like to claim as something entirely my own, for exhibit or display, never offered for the reader to confuse with his own experience . . . The synthesis produced by reading this novel-I allude to that ground where I allow the imagination of reader and writer to merge-must never be the simulation of any real ground...
...decent respect for human life requires a serious, sober response to the news of his death. It is at once strange and sad that many of those conjuring up images of Big Brother display the very lack of humanity, of human sensitivity, that they so readily inveigh against...