Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dave Kingman going to hit a baseball into orbit...
...Bill Lee ever going to come out of orbit...
...leadership was obviously intent on giving the lie to fearful Western prophecies that after Tito-by force or subterfuge-Yugoslavia might be yanked back into the Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...
...increases has led to the new flirtation with old solutions. Economist Walter Heller still opposes them but says that "somewhere along the line, a dose of wage-price controls may be what is necessary to give the economy some shock treatments and to lower us out of this inflation orbit." Adds Bosworth: "The choices to stop inflation are either a recession, with 10% unemployment for three years, or controls...
...opponents as Dwight Eisenhower, the State Department, the Congress and the U.N. But it also weaves a story only slightly less convoluted than its prose style. The year is 1956, when the cold war was gelid. The U.S. and the Soviets are racing to get the first satellite into orbit. While CIA Chief Allen Dulles frets and a viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist. Enter Buckley's later ego, ex-Yalie Blackford Oakes, fresh from triumphs in two earlier...