Word: uncork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western diplomats in Moscow indicated that they would reserve judgment about the significance of Shevardnadze's remarks until they show up as proposals at the U.N.-sponsored Afghan peace talks, which resume next month in Geneva. Said one Western official: "It is too soon to uncork the champagne." But both sides seem eager to lay the groundwork to make this next Geneva session the last...
...press. Vladimir Maximov, a writer now living in Paris who worked for a Stavropol Komsomol newspaper in the 1950s, recalls that the young official often visited the paper's offices for a chat. "He would sit down with us in a casual manner," says Maximov. "We would uncork a bottle of wine ((for all his antialcoholism campaigning, Gorbachev still enjoys an occasional drink)) and usually talk politics. Khrushchev's report on the crimes of the Stalinist era had recently appeared. The entire country was still reeling from shock." Maximov and others of Gorbachev's generation, however, remember the late 1950s...
...bandages or seated in wheelchairs. Around them on every side, portraits of a glowering Khomeini stared down to discourage unholy thoughts and whip up further support. The grand finale of "The Ten Holy Nights," February's celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Republic, seemed to uncork a patriotic fever bordering on hysteria. "Iran is in a state of great excitement," said a high Japanese official who recently visited the nation. "You feel a strong, flaming energy in Iran...
...dispute over Grenada seemed to uncork a pent-up public hostility. It reinforced a perception that journalists regard themselves as utterly detached from, and perhaps even hostile to, the Government of their country. Another factor in provoking distrust is the suspicion that journalists care little about accuracy. When the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News all discovered, during 1981 arid 1982, that they had printed stories that reporters had embellished or invented, much of the public took these extreme cases as typical of journalism and expressed delight that major news organizations had been humiliated...
...finally, there was the wit that put it all in perspective. Weaver had an uncanny ability to uncork a brutal one-liner that could knock baseball a little bit down from its high horse. "The only guy that didn't make a mistake," he once remarked to some second-guessers, "they crucified." His ability to laugh at himself and his sport was almost unrivalled in the self-important athletic world...