Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratification; nor will the tricks that Carter employed to lobby Congress during the Panama Canal dispute prove sufficient. Even some substantive administration maneuvering to placate conservatives has not been enough: Carter has boosted the defense budget by three per cent to 125.8 billion dollars, and nominated a former Pentagon hawk to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, but hard-liners like Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) remain unimpressed. Those who oppose the treaty, including former SALT negotiator Paul Nitze, see it as another step on the road to the international decline of U.S. power. To make its case...
There is a vaguely James Bondian flavor to the wiry Nitze. As chief strategist for the Committee on the Present Danger, he resides in a Virginia penthouse office with a glass wall. The Soviets call him "the white-haired hawk." Many U.S. arms experts would agree, believing that Nitze has narrowed his vision to statistics, which cannot tell the full story of power. They counter his figures with compelling arguments that without a treaty the arms race will grow, and the Russians will gain even more unless the U.S. adds massively to its own arsenal...
...puck the direct way: he sweeps the boards of bodies, then passes off the puck they leave behind. With Denis Potvin, the only defenseman other than Bobby Orr to notch two 30-goal seasons, bringing up the rear, an Islanders' onslaught can be awesome. According to Chicago Black Hawk Center Stan Mikita, there is but one good defense: "You just pray...
...goaltender's duel, Ed ("ED-DEE!") Giacomin vs. Tony Esposito--no scoring. Overtime two: incredible. Chicago closes in for the kill on a three-on-one break. Giacomin skates out to cut down the angle; he is knocked cold by a vicious 15-foot slapshot. A Black Hawk reaches the rubber and bangs it off the post; the Rangers and their fans (except for Giacomin, who is still unconscious) gaze in horror as the puck rebounds to Stan Mikita, quintessential all-star, still one of the most accurate shooters...
...leftist Khalq (People's) Party "considers Moscow his friend, benefactor and protector," as a senior State Department official puts it. Indeed, the pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington. U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, an ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat visiting from Kabul this summer: "You lost Afghanistan." Yet while Taraki has steered his country out of its traditional nonaligned path, he has leavened his pro-Moscow rhetoric with occasional mentions of a desire to maintain ties with...