Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before his trip to Washington to meet with Reagan, Begin made it even clearer that he would not bow to U.S. demands. Still suffering from a painful hip injury sustained last year, the Prime Minister hobbled to the rostrum at the Pierre Hotel, received a thunderous ovation and then told a United Jewish Appeal gathering that "the Israelis are going to behave as the Czechs in 1938 did not. We shall not succumb to friendly pressure if anyone tries to exercise it on us." Speaking earlier to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Begin proclaimed that...
...Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
...afternoon, righteous speech making was interspersed with big-time pop-music making. The day's performers reflected the cultural complexion of the crowd: young and hip, like Rockers Lin da Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne; tweedy and middleaged, like Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary; politically insistent, like Balladeers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger...
...members of his own Likud coalition had just defected to the Labor alignment. Still, as he wound up his 20-minute speech in the Knesset, Begin confidently asserted: "The government will not fall today." Then, bracing himself against the cane that he has been using since he broke his hip last November, Begin stepped down from the rostrum to await the roll call. He turned out to be right: by a vote of 58 to 57, the Prime Minister had once again snatched parliamentary survival from what had appeared to be almost certain defeat...
...geopolitics and war, focusing questions of stunning clarity on almost every aspect of the exercise of world power. Reagan, derided a year ago by Leonid Brezhnev as a global cowboy, has emerged as the man who repeatedly cautioned his Government in secret meetings, "Don't shoot from the hip...