Word: brink
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...saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...without alienating, perhaps even losing, Britain and other allies. Now Eden can answer charges that his threats were empty blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse." To counter any clamor at Britain's humiliation by Egypt, Eden might well bare his breast to the foe, move to the brink of war, and then, upon anguished outcries from the U.S., refrain from fighting in order to save the Anglo-American alliance...
Dulles: "Unquestionably the greatest unguided missile in the history of American diplomacy" (Clement); "Daredevil John Foster Dulles−world-famous escape artist with his breathtaking, death-defying brink-of-war act" (Kerr...
...China crisis of Dienbienphu. Then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had counseled the sweet uses of restraint and diplomacy. Now it was Eden's government that talked of military action. Now it was the British, despite their past jeering at Dulles' "brinksmanship," who hovered in anger around the brink...
...Hickling writes of the sea and his ungainly craft with the accuracy of a seaman, the eye of a poet, and a prose that suggests he profitably studied Conrad. His descriptions transform the experiences of the sea from something noted into something experienced; though they sometimes teeter on the brink of preciosity ("A filibuster of surf"), they rarely lose their delicate balance. Sample: "About the ship the sea resounded with fantastic whispers, occasionally erupting against the shivering bows; it moved like a beast asleep...