Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk the road of hard love...
Sadat sought to walk the diplomatic tightrope between the U.S. and the Soviets. He stressed he "would not recommend a retreat" from the improved relations with the U.S. and Western Europe, but - as was to be expected in wake of the failure of the Kissinger shuttle - he also emphasized that Egypt's ties with the Soviet Union would be placed "in their right position." That will almost certainly mean a warming of Cairo-Moscow relations...
Delicate Operation. Sightseers were barred from approaching either the ship or the barge. When local fire officials insisted upon inspecting HMB-1, they found its interior completely shrouded by tarpaulins. "Surveillance TV cameras follow anyone who approaches the barge, and guards with big pistols walk beside you on board," reported a tug pilot who once towed the barge...
These were mere irritations to Herzl. "A light fog is mounting around me," he noted in his diary, "which could become the cloud in which I walk." Yet, if his head was in the stratosphere, his feet remained on the boulevard. Mixing altruism and chutzpah, he gathered votaries wherever he spoke, and he spoke everywhere. His message was always the same: Jews will never be safe until they have a homeland of their own. By 1902 he had pledges of 3 million francs. He grandly talked of purchasing territory in Cyprus, even Uganda. But Israel remained his true destination...
What we're talking about, of course, are the NCAA finals this weekend in San Diego, Calif., which will, of course, rip delirious Kentuckians into warring camps when both the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville walk over their semifinal opponents (Syracuse and UCLA, respectively) Saturday night, barefooted...