Word: terse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet another severe problem is the drastic delay in deliveries that is being caused by inflation-breeding shortages of aluminum, steel and electronic print ed circuits. As a result, orders have backed up dramatically, leaving the Army short 1,857 tanks. To make mat ters worse, Secretary of State Kissinger...
What had doubtless seemed simple generosity to President Ford when he gave his Alaska timberwolf fur coat to an ad miring Leonid Brezhnev seemed to them defiling of an endangered species. Let ters and telegrams of protest greeted Ford on his return to Washington. It turned out that the Chief...
Brandt has since disowned the article-purportedly based on excerpts from his secret diaries-although not very convincingly. Whether or not the quoted excerpts were authentic, that kind of cataclysmic approach did seem to reflect the doubts and disappointment of a visionary leader who had remained in power beyond his...
Time and again he reduces his charac ters to elements in static landscapes, fur ther distancing us from Molly and friends. friends.
Higgins is a miniaturist, and at his best a Fragonard of the nefarious. But in Cogan 's Trade he is not quite at his best. He spends too much time away from his strongest character and sput ters four-letter words until some pages read like excerpts from a...