Word: linings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent a message over Nixon's name on the hot line to Moscow-its first use by the Nixon Administration. (Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev later used it during the October 1973 Middle East war.) Actually, this Moscow-Washington telegraphic link worked more slowly than did the communications of the Soviet embassy. But it conferred a sense of urgency and might speed up Soviet decisions. The one-page hot line message declared that the President had "set in train certain moves" in the U.N. Security Council that could not be reversed. It concluded: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that...
Just when we had finished dispatching the hot line message, we received word that Huang Hua, then China's U.N. Ambassador, needed to see me with an urgent message from Peking. It was unprecedented, the Chinese having previously always saved their messages until we asked for a meeting-a charming Middle Kingdom legacy. We assumed that only a matter of gravity could induce them into such a departure. We guessed that they were coming to the military assistance of Pakistan. If so, we were on the verge of a possible showdown. For if China moved militarily, the Soviet Union...
...answer to the Parnassian pretensions of French artists' circles in the '90s-the kind of high-mindedness he had mocked as a student, ten years before, with an acrid parody of Puvis de Chavannes's Sacred Grove, into whose pallid scattering of muses he introduced a line of stray moderns from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf of Parnassus. Lautrec thought the timeless and the eternal a boring joke, and in At the Moulin Rouge he offered the alternative: let the aesthetes dedicate themselves to Higher Thought, but he would...
...Crimson, on the other hand, used its fourth signalcaller in as many games Saturday at Schoellkopf Field as Harvard quarterbacks continued to fall victim to the injury plague like so many medieval Europeans. After a sputtery offensive quarter and a half, Mike Smerczynski scrambled back toward the line of scrimmage and went down hard. He limped off the field with a badly sprained ankle, and the jinx lives...
...kept within reach during the first half as sacks and penalties left the offense in neutral. Cornell opened the scoring after a stalled drive and a holding scoring in the half, booming 47- and 42yd. its own 21. Duke Millard's punt was blocked by the charging Big Red line and bounded into the endzone where Kent Craven grabbed it for the touchdown...