Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infirmity, Brezhnev was a man somewhat larger than life: he projected a physical magnetism that fairly overwhelmed many of his fellow statesmen in the West. In his second volume of memoirs, Henry Kissinger described Brezhnev's "split personality": he was "alternatively boastful and insecure, belligerent and mellow." Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt thought that Brezhnev was "quasi-Mediterranean in his movements when he warmed to a conversation." Unquestionably, he had a zest for life. Until illness intervened, he smoked incessantly and drank vodka toast after vodka toast without showing so much as a sign of weakness. Richard Nixon...
...deter further Soviet expansionism. The idea of actively coaxing the U.S.S.R. toward a more humane social order seemed out of the question. The author of the containment doctrine, George Kennan, held out the dim hope that if the Soviet aggressive drive were held in check, perhaps the regime might mellow. But that would happen only very gradually. Because of the internal dynamics of the Soviet Union, Kennan argued, American influence on that country's evolution could only be oblique and passive...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, long known for its sunny beaches and mellow populace, has developed into the intensive legal battle-ground for draft registration. In San Diego, enforcement began last June, when 21-year-old Humboldt State University student Benjamin H. Sasway was indicted. And in Los Angeles, where federal officials are now fighting to prosecute 21-year-old former Yale University student David Wayte, the whole system could come tumbling down...
...matches in the competition are refunded like mellow ultimate Frisbee in which roughing the disc-carrier is forbidden...
...roommate's statement really confused me. So, that night, I lay awake in my bed wondering, "What do those funky, mellow Californians know that we Easterners don't?" Who would have guessed that something like that was possible...