Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dobrynin measures Presidents, so do Presidents measure Moscow by him. He gets remote when Moscow gets remote. He grows silent when the Kremlin gets confused. He gets tough when the Politburo gets angry. Back during the 1973 Middle East war, he was as cold and hard as an iceberg while the Soviets seemed to be planning to intervene. Within a few hours after the U.S. went on military alert and threatened confrontation, he was laughing about the whole misunderstanding...
...This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Cambridge Police Detective Michael D. Giacoppo, adding. "How far it may go we just don't know...
Still, he added, the road to recovery can be especially painful because Bulimia represents the tip of the iceberg. "Before a person recovers from Bulimia, she must work out sometimes quite complex psychological problems," he said...
...experts argue over whether the actual rate of child abuse is rising, or just the reporting of it. Either way, only a small fraction of all abuses is reported. Guesses on the "tip of the iceberg" range from 10% to 25% of actual cases, but no one really knows...
...coincidence of openings is only the tip of a thematic iceberg. A sampling of plots from the eight stories not fitting that particular pattern reveal some of its contours...