Word: shoehorning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's heavy-handed battering of the U.S. may have reflected Kremlin irritation at the timing of the American reply to a sweeping Soviet arms- control proposal. Reason: the U.S. response came only two days before the congress convened, forcing Gorbachev to shoehorn a Soviet answer into the most important political address of his career. Gorbachev had offered on Jan. 15 to take a step toward complete nuclear disarmament by the end of the century. The first stage called for the Soviet Union and the U.S. to remove their intermediate-range missiles from Europe within five to eight years...
There are also fleeting suggestions, beneath all his mocking worldliness, of a slightly unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines, who will sometimes sneak up and start tickling him to make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which...
...always felt life for me was shaped like a shoehorn, as I helped ease [the students] into the next stage of their life. However much work and time I committed to encouraging and acquainting myself with the students in the House. I think I should've perished had I not kept up with my own work as well," says Finley, also Eliot Professor of Greek Literature emeritus, who remembers annually memorizing the face and name of every Eliot House incoming sophomore...