Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope it may be our privilege before I too long to welcome an independent Zimbabwe to this assembly as a full member of the United Nations." That sentiment, expressed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington at the U.N. General Assembly last week, reflected the optimism emanating from the third round of London talks on the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. The reason: a dramatic exchange of major concessions seemed to have brought a new Zimbabwe constitution almost within reach...
...stronger in August and September than it was in the early summer. With gasoline readily available again, buyers have returned to shopping centers and auto showrooms. Reflecting this consumer boomlet, the Commerce Department guesstimates that the economy may have actually grown at an annual rate of 1% in the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, which begins this week, the brief spending splurge is expected to fade, and the pace of business will slow sharply...
...this third novel (after Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball and Preservation Hall) Spencer builds a model of emergent love pursued to its obsessive extreme. The author constructs his tale around an apposite metaphor, catastrophic fire. Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod sets some newspapers alight on the porch of his beloved Jade's house after her parents have forbidden him to see her for 30 days. He wishes to attract attention and instead nearly incinerates Jade, her brothers and parents...
...Third World War. Hackett...
...specific terms but to the fact of an agreement," Kissinger writes. He did not come right out and say so. "Instead, he fought in the Vietnamese manner: indirectly, elliptically, by methods designed to exhaust rather than to clarify, constantly needling but never addressing the real issue." On the third day of meetings, the Vietnamese presented Kissinger with 23 changes, some major, in the draft peace treaty; later that figure would triple, to 69. Finally the talks broke down completely as Thieu, between tears of rage, accused the Americans of having "connived" to sell him out. "Obviously the negotiations could...