Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political rumble from Gorbachev's tanks will be even more audible once the withdrawal begins. The Soviets are cranking up media coverage, complete with waving children and flowers tucked in the muzzles of tank cannons. But NATO cannot simply ignore the powerful allure of Gorbachev's challenge, despite its own dissensions. The defense ministers have dodged confrontation for now, but the ominous antinuclear trend will be less easily glossed over when the top leaders return to Brussels for next month's summit...
...stored attention onto a child who is more ready to be tucked in than talked at. "It may be that the same loss of leisure among parents produces this pressure for rapid achievement and overprogramming of children," argues Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Rockford Institute, an Illinois think tank. If parents see parenting largely as an investment of their precious time, they may end up viewing children as objects to be improved rather than individuals to be nurtured at their own pace...
...defensive in deployment. In addition, the Soviets now speak of maintaining a "reasonable sufficiency" in their nuclear and conventional forces rather than attempting to match or surpass the might of the West in every category. As a Soviet arms- control official asked recently, "What do we need a huge tank park in Eastern Europe...
...taxi pulled away from the Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards...
According to William Arkin, a specialist on nuclear weaponry with the liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies, the Soviet navy has suffered more than 200 serious accidents with submarines just since...