Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pure Soul. Nikita was not in a mood to accept any compromise. Stiffly, he dismissed Ike's statement with the cold rejoinder that it contained no "renunciation" of Francis Powers' flight over Russia, no "expression of regret," and no mention of "punishment for those who are directly responsible." To Western reminders that Russia had a notable espionage record of its own, Khrushchev, an avowed atheist, threw his hands above his head and said: "As God is my witness, my hands are clean and my soul is pure." If he had let Ike come to Russia, he went...
...staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer built primarily on sacrifice. He promised peace, and with it, a better life. By the logic of his promises, he urgently needed to reduce the burden that cold-war armament imposed on Russian economic and human resources...
Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...
...Creeft took one sensational detour while still in Paris. It happened one day when "I was sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school of stovepipe art, and his reputation was to follow him across the Atlantic when he arrived...
First she is uplifted as she decides the door is even more beautiful than she imagined; then she is drained of confidence, as it seems to have a "faked, added-on look,'' and she suspects that "there's some cold-blooded will, some sly malevolence" behind...