Word: frets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration disagreed and turned down Moscow's plan. White House strategists contend that the Soviets are merely trying to get rid of Safeguard on the cheap. The Russians, they claim, fret that the ABM can be upgraded from a shield for individual silos into a defense for much wider areas against a Soviet counterstrike. That would enable the U.S. to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union with less fear of retaliation, upsetting the nuclear "balance of terror...
Masterly Inertia. Who wins? For the moment, Franco seems determined to exercise what Journalist Brian Crozier calls his "masterly inertia"-his practice of moving on an issue only as little as possible and as late as possible. Now that the army, too, has begun to fret about Spain's social disease, however, the pressure on the Caudillo to end the liberalizing influence of the technocrats may grow irresistible...
Suddenly it is fashionable in Washington to fret and fulminate that a palace guard has separated Nixon from realities. In the White House, the key figures around the President are Staff Chief H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, Domestic Affairs Aide John Ehrlichman and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. Because of their ancestry?and their closemouthed habits?the Teutonic trio is now known as "the Berlin Wall" in the White House pressroom. One Administration official calls them "all the king's Krauts"; another speaks of "the throne nursers." Kissinger refers to the other two as "the Praetorian Guard," and Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
...syncopated tempo, while Mirza takes the first note as a starting point for "bending the pitch" of the next interval, to be played in "meend," a technique similar to the "blueing" of notes in jazz. "The beauty of the sitar lies in pulling the notes from one fret to another," according to Mirza. The drawn-out sounds create the strange, modal, wailing effect which western ears find so intriguing...
...nerve-jangling noise, reeking dumps and an ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists go so far as to advocate a no-growth society...