Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued its efforts to develop nuclear weapons for nuclear energy and enriching facilities. Instead of recognizing the threat such a policy poses to American efforts to check nuclear proliferation, the Administration has reduced the complex nuclear question to a deceptively simple black and white one. Referring to Zia's verbal denial of interest in developing his country's nuclear weapons capability, one Administration official announced. "We accept that the President of Pakistan is telling us the truth...
...proposals from either side. Indeed, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz made it clear late in the week that Washington is waiting warily for Moscow to take the first concrete step toward easing tensions. But American and Soviet officials did seize the opportunity to stop the angry and menacing verbal exchanges that had been escalated into a war of words during the two years that Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev led the superpowers, and to substitute cautious expressions of hope for conciliation. To use the felicitous phrase that Shultz picked up from an American reporter, the "mood music...
...then the verbal volley suddenly stopped. In a warm, conciliatory speech before the assembled businessmen at a Kremlin dinner, Premier Tikhonov called for "normal and, even better, friendly relations" between the two countries. At the end of Tikhonov's talk, Hartman told the Premier, "Now that's what I call a good speech." Tikhonov smiled faintly...
...refuge for himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug: "Naja," says Prey, and gloomy Faust retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role he would really like to sing is neither a villain nor a victim but the dashing hero of Lehar's The Merry Widow: Count...
WHAT HOLDS ALL THESE revolutionary approaches to gather is consistently superb line reading not only on the classic soliloquies but even during the endless stretches of desultory verbal fencing. He even incorporates the rarely heard second second-act prologue which summarizes the lovers developing plight...