Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1960s and '70s were a different matter. John Wayne was a Mason, which meant the protest generation wasn't. Nor did '80s antiestablishmentarians-turned-entrepreneurs feel much affinity toward a group of admitted joiners who perceived squareness as a virtue. That left the war veterans and youngsters like Feingold, now 62, who was taken under the wing of a brother in his Queens neighborhood in 1960. The man was a stickler for ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains...
...country must again be brought to the brink of disaster before leadership can be transferred. There is little argument that Suharto's rule is coming to an end. Said Amien Rais, a key opposition figure who heads the powerful Muhammadiyah Muslim organization: "The only way to stop this move toward anarchy is for Suharto to step down...
...came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under way. Scientists and engineers have been moving in small groups from their laboratories to the desert testing site in Rajasthan. They travel...
...more urgent task was to stop Pakistan from imitating India's move. As a delegation led by Deputy Secretary Talbott winged toward Islamabad, Pakistan gave every sign that it was about to set off nuclear tests of its own. "We are like a cook waiting for the orders," said Abdul Qadeer Khan, the country's top nuclear scientist. U.S. satellites spying on the Baluchistan desert recorded preparations. In a phone chat, Prime Minister Sharif would not promise Clinton to desist, despite the prospect of being slapped with the same economic sanctions if he didn...
...only a matter of seconds until the old man catches me staring and this sends him in my direction. "He had the vision," he announces by way of explanation, gesticulating toward the statue. Hoping to mollify him I agree, for the first time noticing that his mouth is desperately low on teeth. But it's too late, because he's already spotted my Cambridge University T-shirt, and this gives him the appropriate lead-in to a whole series of remarks: He tells me he's almost certain John Harvard was a Cambridge man, and then surprises me by navigating...