Word: coldness
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...larger selection edited by Carroll will be published as a book next May by Scribner's), the correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying in a Chosin Reservoir crater or Mekong Delta rice paddy for Old Glory made practical sense. Fear of death, however, permeates them all, no matter in which bloodstained decade they were composed...
...comparison. The Foreign Relations Committee is only a shell of what it was when the influential Arkansas Democrat was its chairman from 1959 to 1974. "The dirty little secret is they don't do very much now," says a senior Administration aide. Helms sticks to a few cold war issues like Russia and China and lets the panel's younger Republicans lead hearings on other subjects. But Helms' committee still approves State Department nominees and treaties, a power he has used in a masterly way to become a de facto Foreign Minister...
Having done so, the most powerful monetary movers and shakers on the planet invariably line up for an informal boardroom lunch. Reaching for paper plates and plasticware, the FOMC members help themselves to a buffet that last week featured cold cuts, soft drinks, salads and chocolate-chip cookies--a special favorite of many members. Then they headed back to their offices to watch Wall Street's reaction, while bankers across the country adjusted the loan-rate signs in their windows...
...must cope with the aftereffects of a strike by the National Association of Meteorologists. Not only have forecasts ceased, but so, in a sense, has the weather itself, leaving them, as the wife notes, "stuck in a bland width of grayness with day after day of neither heat nor cold." In Windows another couple, both painters, decide to board up their house, depriving themselves of indoor access to natural light, to protest the government's new window tax. Reportage offers a breezily journalistic account of how local residents react when a Roman arena is improbably excavated in their area...
...Greenland colony do not represent opinions universally held by those of us actively engaged in this field. You said, "Norse hunting techniques and agriculture were inadequate for survival in [the Little Ice Age's] long chill, and the Vikings never adapted the Inuit's more effective strategies for the cold." If the Norse were that backward, how did they survive for even one generation in their remote new land? Greenland represented a daunting challenge even in its warmest periods. Instead, the Norse managed well for about a half-millennium, maintaining their own culture while adapting to changing fortunes. The arbitrary...