Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nessen compounded the error by declaring that the President stood by his statement. Kissinger finally managed to make the remark ap pear to be ambiguous, as if the President had some remote Machiavellian purpose in saying it. That is diplomatically acceptable...
Although the remark on possible intervention was just a very small part of a lengthy interview, it was picked up and headlined by newspapers and wire services around the world. Standing alone, the statement almost seemed as if Kissinger were already mobilizing troops. The reaction was immediate, emotional and sharply negative. "A colonialist enterprise doomed to failure," thundered Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, reacting to his own reading of the Kissinger statement. "Gunboat policies," ridiculed Pravda. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat warned that the oil-producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized...
...talk. He can. But he just gets the job done..."; and when one of the hangers-on in attendance, an old Boston football expert asked by the M.C. to explain why that week's games had been such high-scoring affairs, answered: "This may sound like a stupid remark, but now you've got a lot of colored boys playing football, and they're damn good athletes who put a lot of pep into the game...
Kissinger's "use of force" means war. No one who recalls the barbarism and destruction of the "use of force" by the United States in Vietnam can accept it now, even in another context. Kissinger's remark, no matter how phrased, threatens the sovereignty and well-being of the people of the Mideast who cannot be held responsible for the policies of their autocratic rulers...
...characteristic remark. The egomaniac was, in fact, a modest man. The vain Lothario had been married almost 50 years to the same woman. The skinflint was a great tipper...