Word: mir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made clear to the Soviet people that the U.S. wants peace and friendship (mir i druzhba) with their country...
...political dialogue-for one thing, constant translations seemed to bring out a simplified pidgin style of discourse. And the cold war has reached a point where the same dialogue works for both sides: Nixon got his biggest cheers and widest smiles by calling out that old Communist slogan, Mir i Druzhba (Peace and Friendship). It was what everybody wanted to hear, wanted to believe...
...species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan Miró, a stage curtain painted by Picasso...
...Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner to accommodate its lone subscriber, His Highness the Mir. With remarkable loyalty, 87% of National Geographic subscribers voluntarily renew...
...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...