Word: yearning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect as well as they can their oasis of stability, the Saudi leaders have used the power of petrodollars to help shore up moderate regimes around them. They yearn for consensus rather than polarization and try to soften up radical Arab regimes rather than fight them. They annoyed the U.S. and Egypt by going along with a condemnation of the Camp David agreements at the Baghdad summit meeting of Arab states; but they did so in return for an easing of radical Arab retaliation against Egypt. The West was disappointed at the Saudi performance at last month's OPEC...
...people how things were. A strange cycle develops, with fond memories becoming part of the collective memory of an era, until all that is left of such an era are these one-sided memories. It's rather sad to watch movies in which present day movie stars yearn for the good old days, when "the movies really meant something." It is the same sadness you get when you hear the formula-rock and roll bands eulogizing how the original music is. But as anyone who saw Elvis grow old and ridiculous on the cover of countless magazines already knows...
...deal to sell Revlon products in the U.S.S.R. "The market is clearly enormous," he says. Foreign cosmetics are a big black-market item in the Soviet Union, because the stodgily run government factories do not turn out lipsticks and fragrances in the quantity and variety that women yearn...
...collective bargaining, and prohibits torture and the death penalty. Basque separatists reject the document because it commits Spain's provinces to the authority of a central government, even though it grants them more autonomy than they have had. The Franquistas do not accept the new constitution; they merely yearn for winter...
Brigadier Theodore Augden recalls his years of military service: "The few of us who were called Eurasians first and officers afterwards were looked on by _ the Brits as upstarts. The Indians called us snobs." Strangers in their own skins, exiles in their own country, the half-castes yearn for some homeland that does not exist. Enter " Lionel, 20, banished from Lucknow because of an affair with a Hindu girl. The young bachelor withdraws into lofty isolation. "He was laughing at us for our old ways, our old clothes, our games, our silly picnics, and our drunkenness," thinks Natalie, Augden...