Word: mir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of SALT altogether, they have the capability of going as high as 1,300. The MIRVing freeze would hold the Soviet ICBMS at the number of warheads already tested on each type of rocket. In the case of their biggest missile, the SS-18, that means ten MIR Vs. Without such a freeze, the SS-18 monster could carry as many as 25 independently targetable bombs...
...white shirt, and a tight jaw? Would you believe that Walter Reuther's salary in 1945 was just $7,000 while that of the president of General Motors was $459,000? Did you know that Stokely Carmichael not only spoke Yiddish but liked to taunt Southern Sheriffs with "Kish mir tuchas, baby," and that Ted Gold, one of the Weathermen responsible for firebombing Justice John Murtagh's home in 1970, was actually "shy, almost professorial" by nature? And the historical data is just as painstakingly chronicled: dates, times, and characters are placed just so in the elaborate panoramic view...
...with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them to possess primitive virtues that were unadulterated by the venality of the outside world. Conservatives hailed the village commune, or mir, as a cohesive force binding the empire, while the radicals perceived the mir as a ready-made basis for socialism. In his later years, Tolstoy saw the peasant as a religious figure possessing a pure and particularly Russian spirituality-a view now shared by Solzhenitsyn...