Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's much heralded "Year of Europe" goes awry when the allies fear the U.S. may be ignoring them and dealing directly with Moscow. During the Middle East war, some NATO members strain the alliance by refusing to allow U.S. supply planes to refuel at their bases en route to Israel...
Indeed, for the past months most families have had no alternative but to stand behind the Carter Administration, or at least maintain a silence about their worries. But the strain of waiting was clearly taking its toll on the families. Their relatives were still alive, yet the threat of death remained. "It's almost like a grieving situation with parts of it unresolved," said Dorothy Limbert, psychotherapist and mother of State Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into...
...American involvement in the Vietnamese war ended, and much of the country, weary of its troubled preoccupation with external matters, turned with relief to thoughts of itself and means of self-betterment. That there was an unabashedly narcissistic strain behind the shift in no way diminished its relevance to the running movement...
Negative qualities: stubborn. A strain of pettiness that surfaces from time to time. A kind of us-and-them feeling that does not surface much but I think is there. I think that's endemic to anyone in the White House, but it's especially so for Jimmy Carter, coming in as the outsider, the loner, not conversant with the salons of power, coming in and running against everybody. Carter, too, seems unable to use politics for what it should be used for. The art of the politician, the public educator, whatever we call leadership, I think it's that...
Unfortunately for the reader, Toffler's story too has only just begun. For 450 pages more, he plays Daniel Bell and Jeanne Dixon, but with heart. Every page shows the strain of his midwifery; to give birth to a new era is hard work indeed. The wonder is that anyone agreed to publish this diary of Toffler's nighttime fears and Newsweek clippings. But there is an explanation. A decade ago, Alvin Toffler wrote a book with a clever computer-letters cover called Future Shock. And even if that effort was not immediately heralded as better than Revelation and installed...