Word: interregnum
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...faced the same internal military resistance that kept Soviet tanks from moving against Boris Yeltsin. As it turned out, President Bush later told reporters gathered at his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., that U.S. intelligence detected no signals or movements indicating "a nuclear threat of any kind" during the interregnum. By Wednesday, the infernal briefcase was back in Gorbachev's safekeeping, and the world could breathe a little easier...
Jackson obviously sees the show as a way of staying in the public eye while contemplating his next political move. For a model, he need look no further than former President Ronald Reagan, who kept hope alive during the interregnum between the California governorship and the White House by doing radio commentary. Jackson's advisers hope the show will present a "cooler" Jesse Jackson than the image viewers usually get. "Most people only know Jesse from a 20-to-30-second snippet of a speech, where he's near a crescendo," says longtime aide Frank Watkins. "In TV terms...
...tricky. On the one hand, where exactly does history stop? Lithuania was independent for 20 years between 1920 and 1940, but for more than a hundred years before that it was part of the Russian empire. Which historical period is the norm? The Russian imperium? The brief interregnum of Lithuanian independence? Or the Soviet reality of the past 50 years...
Once the Uruguayan-born Ott's design was chosen by Mitterrand in late 1983 after an open competition, however, the sniping really started. There were whispers that Ott's utilitarian, curvilinear design had been selected by mistake. There was a revolving door of administrators. During a two-year conservative interregnum, the project was temporarily halted...
...dying and the new cannot be born. In the interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear...