Word: puts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Choosing Pugo may have seemed like a sop to restless conservatives, but appointing General Boris Gromov as Deputy Interior Minister showed that Gorbachev intends to put military muscle behind his calls for law-and-order. Gromov, who commanded the last contingent of Soviet forces to leave Afghanistan, has figured prominently at times in rumors that the military was plotting a coup. Gromov has denied the possibility of such a move, and he downplayed suggestions that his combat experience alone earned him his new job. But the connection was too evident to ignore. "Gromov is a reliable trigger puller," says William...
...fitted together with infinite care. William Faulkner would isolate himself in a small cell-like room and labor over his words like a jeweler arranging tiny jewels in a watch. Thomas Mann would consider himself lucky if, after a full day at his desk, he was able to put down on paper 500 words that he was willing to share with the world...
...often lead us away from where we want to go; they unwittingly antagonize friends or business associates. We are infuriated when our position is not understood and then becomes the collapsing factor in an important business deal. Or we are terrified when the leaders of government miscommunicate and put their countries on a collision course...
...thoughts are converted into language calls for no less attention in formal schooling than geography or mathematics or biology or any of the other systematic subjects. Squeezing essential meaning into arbitrary and unworkable time limits leads to glibness on one end and exasperation on the other. We need not put up with either...
Kuwait could also acquiesce to a final fixing of the disputed Iraq-Kuwait border that would put its two-mile-long share of Rumaila squarely on Iraqi turf. Alternatively, Kuwait could agree to turn its proceeds from Rumaila over to Baghdad. Though the field is extraordinarily bountiful, its loss would not seriously dent Kuwait's oil riches. Prior to the invasion, Kuwait was extracting some 10,000 bbl. a day from Rumaila, just 0.5% of its total production of 2 million...