Word: figs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the patience of many workers, dismayed at having traded three years of wage restraint for the sterility of the Callaghan program, erupted into the disastrous strikes this past winter, the one fig-leaf covering the Labour government--their claim to be able to 'manage' the unions--had disappeared. There was little left to fight for, and long before election day, the Labour faithful were demoralized by the party's failure to present a radical alternative to the Tory challenge...
Moscow insisted upon describing the invaders as "the revolutionary armed forces" of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation (KNUFNS), a band of Cambodian rebels rounded up by Hanoi last month. Few observers were misled by this disguise, however, KNUFNS is little more than an organizational fig leaf designed to conceal an attempt to unseat the virulently anti-Vietnamese Cambodian government. Among KNUFNS' promises: to re-establish banks and private ownership, restore family life and abolish "compulsory marriage." Still, broadcasting such attractive ideas may have little influence on Cambodia's heavily supervised and rusticated population: there...
...doesn't give a fig for the shipyard. "I don't care about the money at all. I have put that shipyard up my nose ten times over." In cocaine, of course--Chet is what Raymond Chandler used to call a cokey, and Panama's prose comes to you through the paranoid fog of a rolled Benjamin Franklin...
...into the Middle East peace negotiations as a full partner, believing that Washington should prepare its own peace plan and then press both sides to accept it. This is what happened at Camp David. Since last year, Sadat has been seeking what diplomats and journalists alike have called a "fig leaf to make compromise respectable. A generally agreed-on declaration of principles, Sadat reasoned, would provide a framework within which other Arab states could negotiate their own deals with Israel. Sadat's deal has now become the first step toward a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East. If the other...
...beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer...