Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rush of good-fellowship that has the Soviets packing for Geneva again. Rather, the past year made it plain that their attitude of aggrieved peevishness was getting them nowhere. When the NATO governments were staunch in their determination to install new Pershing II and cruise missiles, the disarmament movement in Europe withered, and with it a good part of Moscow's hopes for forestalling the deployments. The Soviets meanwhile heard increasingly come-hither talk from the President and realized by summer that his re-election was all but certain. "They faced four more years of Ronald Reagan," explains...
...Arabian light to $11.65, changed the face of world finance. In the new era of costly energy, scores of countries, not all of them in the Third World, were too strapped to pay their imported-oil bills. At the same time, Western banks suddenly received a rush of deposits from oil-producing nations. It seemed only logical, even humane, that the banks should recycle petrodollars from the rich to the needy...
...Hardly. The latest love in between? Washington and Moscow has about the same chance of breaking into open arms control as did the four years of deep freeze that characterized relations during the first term of the Reagan Administration: nil. All the soothing words enunciated in last week's rush to rapprochement cannot obfuscate the immense underlying obstacles to any meaningful agreement given the current cast of characters in the White House...
...elements. As soon as a foreign visitor appeared, the emaciated people took him for a doctor, crowded around and clutched at his trousers and clung to his legs, pleading for help. Half crazy for food, they trampled each other and knocked down their flimsy shelters in their rush to get to the foreigner...
Bush might win. And he might even become a great president, which would present a quandary to the sculptors of Mt. Rush more--there just isn't enough room left for his many faces...