Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including support for the installation of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles in the country. "The Americans are our most important partners and allies," he told the press conference, but then quickly added that the transatlantic relationship means "friendship and partnership, not dependency." Kohl gave a critical edge to that remark by referring to the gas pipeline from the Soviet Union that a consortium of Western European nations is financing and building despite the protests of the Reagan Administration. The Chancellor coolly alluded to the fact that the U.S. was still selling grain to the Soviets while leveling sanctions against European...
...meeting with the Israelis on Sept. 16, Fady Frem said Hobeika would take his men into the Shatila camp, and both men said there would be a kasach (in Arabic, a chopping or slicing operation). General Drori ignored the evident implications of this remark and the go-ahead was given. Later Drori telephoned Sharon in Tel Aviv: "Our friends are moving into the camps. I coordinated their entrance with their top men." Replied Sharon: "Congratulations . . . The friends' operation is authorized." The Israeli Cabinet and Begin, who were getting only the information that Sharon wanted to pass on, then approved...
Nearly halfway through this first novel the heroine makes a passing reference to Anna Karenina. Her remark is no accident, for she belongs to a family that is unhappy in ways Tolstoy would understand. Her father, Sheridan Shields, is a doctor who practices in a lush, remote area of Hawaii. He was one of the first Americans allowed into Hiroshima after the Bomb; he left the flattened city with an infant Japanese boy whom he had delivered and an incurable case of moral numbness. His wife Anna tells him that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering...
...favorite sermons. King would often quote a French philosopher's remark that "No man is great who does not bear within his character antitheses strongly marked." King provides the best example for that maxim...
...indirectly accused President François Mitterrand of helping to create an anti-Semitic climate in France that fostered the attack. Begin charged that the massacre resulted from "the shocking talk and anti-Israeli incitement which has become like anti-Jewish incitement." The Prime Minister was referring to a remark by Mitterrand comparing the aggressive Israeli attacks on the P.L.O. with Nazi atrocities during World...