Word: extracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they may, leaders in Washington and other Western capitals last week could not extract much more from Moscow than the qualified expressions of regret that were heard on the streets. Instead, Soviet leaders responded with volley after volley of recriminations, continuing the defiant war of words with Washington that threatens to deepen the damage caused by the air tragedy...
...Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo. Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike...
...prices can be deceptive. A pint of Baskin-Robbins at $2.35 contains 50% air. Tartufo's gelato at $2.49 has 9% air. Most of the gelati are made with expensive imported equipment and costly ingredients, such as vanilla extract at $55 a gallon. Some of the recipes call for painstaking manufacture. The Geláre mix is quickly cooled, "aged" in tubs, churned and finally frozen to 20° F below zero over a 24-hour period...
...nearly bought diaries purportedly written by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Nazi Germany's chief of military intelligence until 1944. On the scent of sensational revelations, Irving and the British publishers William Collins Sons deposited $120,000 in a West German bank for the privilege of examining a twelve-page extract from the typewritten documents, which bore a signature that was allegedly Canaris'. When tested by a London laboratory, the signature proved to have been written with a ball point pen, an instrument that came into use in Germany after Canaris was executed on Hitler's orders...
...Schmidt's approval: a simultaneous U.S. offer to open negotiations with the Soviet Union on intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Giscard argued that this would make the deployment decision more acceptable to West European public opinion, but that only a demonstration of the will to deploy could extract concessions from the Soviets. The four leaders ultimately agreed. In December 1979, ministers representing all 15 NATO members unanimously approved what came to be known as the two-track decision: deployment of 572 cruise and Pershing II missiles to take place if the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not make...