Word: pipsqueak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud leader of the greatest nation in the free world will be here soon, in our care for four days. Has he not had enough woes? First, the perverse American people voted in a Democratic Senate. Then, those tricky Russians refused to back down on SDI. Now, some little pipsqueak in the NSC has singlehandedly threatened his Presidency with some Watergate-like scandal, completely without his knowledge...
...some kind of international morality. We all heard of this in the case of the Russian barbarians shooting down of the plane. We heard it even more in the case of Afghanistan, right? America was on strong moral grounds there. It squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy...
...year's attacks on world leaders came with almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades...