Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military field. The U.S. will still go on developing antisatellite systems. It will go on developing space weapons systems. So here you see how certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them...
...technology of Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting the U.S. to reply to what it views as Soviet propaganda "according to the principle of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' " For example, Gorbachev went on, if Moscow announced...
...when Chernenko died and the Secretariat elected Gorbachev General Secretary less than five hours later. Nominating Gorbachev for that post, Gromyko gave what has since become the standard one- line description of the new boss. Said Gromyko: "This man has a nice smile, but he has got iron teeth...
Gorbachev, 5-ft. 9-in., stocky and balding, has amply demonstrated both teeth and smile in a whirlwind half-year. He has taken hammer and sickle to the country's bureaucracy. To date, 22 of 121 regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo...
...dealing with some other Third World leaders, Gorbachev has shown the iron teeth rather than the broad smile. He told Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq that continued Pakistani assistance to guerrillas battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan would affect relations with the U.S.S.R. "in the most negative way." Said Zia: "Gorbachev was twisting my arm." Zia did not yield...