Word: embark
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...topic, like a python swallowing an elephant. He wrestles with how to treat Liebling's role as a war correspondent, not one of his greatest periods. Sokolov does not compare Liebling's war pieces to other more outstanding journalists of the time, perhaps because he does not want to embark upon a project that could easily fill another book. Still, the lack of professional comparisons throughout the book detracts from a full understanding of how Liebling's work progressed...
...more distant realms of the stars and galaxies, Sagan opted for the nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager: he bet a case of chocolate bars that the U.S. would reach the moon by 1970. He won with five months to spare...
...unions and the party embark on a delicate experiment...
...Reagan now repudiates the treaty signed by his predecessor, he may kill the whole SALT process, and the Soviets may embark on a massive increase in warheads, well beyond the modest but significant limits set by SALT II. That is a gamble Reagan seems willing to take. "The Russians are resilient and hard-nosed businessmen," says the candidate's chief foreign policy adviser, Richard Allen. "They're marking time and waiting to see whom they'll be dealing with after the election...
...Soviet threat must be countered, says Nixon, by a dramatic military buildup and by a willingness to confront the Soviets whenever they embark on some aggressive act. By way of illustration, he cites his own action in 1973 when he ordered a military alert to warn the Soviet Union against sending troops to intervene in the Arab-Israeli...