Word: scabbard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate subcommittee on the Near East, said that Carter outlined "a clear containment doctrine, and, if it means what it implies, it is the strongest statement that any President in recent years has made." By contrast, House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of "rattling the scabbard without anything in it." Said Senate Acting Minority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska: "If the Carter Doctrine had been in effect before Afghanistan, we'd be at war with the Soviet Union now. We're attempting to speak strongly while carrying a short stick...