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  • The Russian invasion transformed Zia from an international pariah to the great defender of freedom in the Cold War.†   (source)
  • That was the year that the cold war ended, the year the Berlin Wall came down.†   (source)
  • As American occupiers worked to help Japan transition to democracy and independence, the Cold War was beginning.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was at its height.†   (source)
  • "Same flight patterns as the Cold War?"†   (source)
  • But the Lebey-Williams feud was a mere quibble compared with the cold war that raged between Williams and his next-door neighbors, Lee and Emma Adler.†   (source)
  • They even became involved in the Cold War.†   (source)
  • "Used this in the Cold War," the god said fondly.†   (source)
  • We none of us drink it—Daddy always ordered this kind" — hoisting Stoli bottle—"because he liked the label …. very Cold War …. how do you say it again…."†   (source)
  • She says this way she has four whole years to make observations on the adolescent condition in post"Cold War America.†   (source)
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  • What about SEATO and the Cold War?†   (source)
  • Just think about the Cold War.†   (source)
  • After the war, Disney continued to work closely with top military officials and military contractors, becoming America's most popular exponent of Cold War science.†   (source)
  • You have to remember that this was during the cold war; tensions were running high, and we North Carolinians needed something to bring it down to a more personal level.†   (source)
  • In the years of the Cold War Austria and East Germany were linked by a common piece of hypocrisy: both pretended to have been forcibly occupied by Hitler's Germany in the Second World War.†   (source)
  • The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil.†   (source)
  • Let's blame the Cold War and the hostage situation in Iran and the depletion of the ozone layer on Kemp.†   (source)
  • But when the Cold War ended, financial and political support from Washington waned.†   (source)
  • He said, "Cold war?†   (source)
  • During the Cold War, Russia was their biggest threat.†   (source)
  • Code that my people tell me was very popular with the old KGB before the Cold War ended.†   (source)
  • America stood watch up on the walls of the Western World for the long years of the Cold War, and ultimately defeated communism, whose menace was responsible for the deaths of untold millions.†   (source)
  • Their crews, Mortenson thought, had been unlucky enough to fly near Massoud's stronghold after the CIA made Stinger missiles and the training to fire them effectively available to mujahadeen leaders battling America's Cold War enemy here, leaders like Osama Bin Laden.†   (source)
  • In 1947, the year the Cold War began, the nation still looked to the figures in The Photograph for reassurance.†   (source)
  • Cold War: Both the United States and the Soviet Union bioweapons programs reach new heights, exploring the use of hundreds of bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • He was for most of his career a soldier of the cold war.†   (source)
  • That he's a hit man who defected from the Soviet Union during the Cold War."†   (source)
  • The slim white Atlas rocket blasted off without incident, proving that the United States was catching up in the space race, which was going strong, with the Soviet Union having just this week reached an agreement to share outer space research with America's cold war adversaries.†   (source)
  • From the beginning, the paradisiacal image of California lured the hopeful to the golden West, from the pioneer settlers who endured the horrors of the wagon trail to Chinese workers (once called coolies) and Irish laborers during the railroad building of the 1860s, to the Oklahoma dust-bowl refugees immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, to blue-collar workers pouring into the aerospace and defense industries of World War II and the Cold War, to blacks escaping the segregationist South, to Mexicans willing to pick the crops of agribusiness, to youths yearning for the lives glimpsed in movies with Natalie Wood and James Dean.†   (source)
  • In the days of the cold war, money was made selling information three and four times over to the same stations.†   (source)
  • There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness.†   (source)
  • The facility dated from the Cold War.†   (source)
  • I know a place where there is no smog and no parking problem and no population explosion …. no Cold War and no H-bombs and no television commercials …. no Summit Conferences, no Foreign Aid, no hidden taxes—no income tax.†   (source)
  • A practitioner of the cold war.†   (source)
  • "Deterrence based on fear is a holdover from the Cold War.†   (source)
  • Säpo got saddled with Zalachenko in the middle of the Cold War.†   (source)
  • The cold war situation is still very tense.†   (source)
  • "The Russians stole stuff all the time in the Cold War," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • And all this cold war junk is gonna be worth plenty, as quaint memorabilia.†   (source)
  • A voice-over done by a pompous announcer with a cold war tone.†   (source)
  • The glamour surrounding the Mona Lisa has temporarily overshadowed the fear of the cold war.†   (source)
  • He spoke of democracy and freedom, key themes throughout the cold war.†   (source)
  • You need the leaders of both sides to keep the cold war going.†   (source)
  • I guess at one point it was even some kind of model camp, back during the Cold War, a place the West could point to and prove to the world they weren't just funneling arms into Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta's cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage.†   (source)
  • Here was the man who'd ended the Cold War, who'd brought political freedom to hundreds of millions, who'd opened vast new markets.†   (source)
  • As one marketing publication observed, the software developed by Mc-Donald's permits businessmen to "spy on their customers with the same equipment once used to fight the cold war."†   (source)
  • "What's happening now," Chuck whispered conspiratorially, "it makes the Cold War look like an age of transparency and understanding."†   (source)
  • And a few months after that extraordinary event, marking the end of the Cold War, the McDonald's Corporation announced plans to open its first restaurant in East Germany.†   (source)
  • Throughout the Cold War, America's decentralized system of agriculture, relying upon millions of independent producers, was depicted as the most productive system in the world, as proof of capitalism's inherent superiority.†   (source)
  • He explained step by step how she had been targeted by a gang of Cold War mongers at SIS and locked away in a psychiatric hospital to stop her from blowing the whistle on Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • Mobutu renamed the country Zaire and appointed himself president, a post he held for thirty-two years with the support of the United States, which was eager to have a Cold War ally in the heart of Africa.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist calls them 'the Zalachenko club,' a small group of dormant Cold War mongers who hide out in some dark hallway at Säpo."†   (source)
  • Her father, Alexander Zalachenko—otherwise known as Karl Axel Bodin, who was murdered in your hospital—was a Soviet defector, a spy, a relic from the Cold War.†   (source)
  • She was a cold war nun who'd once lined the walls of her room with Reynolds Wrap as a safeguard against nuclear fallout.†   (source)
  • But the world is changing drastically, and Bobby Kennedy reflects the youth and vitality of Camelot instead of the stodgy cold war values synonymous with the older Johnson.†   (source)
  • If the FBI, in all its zeal to stop the spread of communism, is concerned that a former Soviet defector has access to such top secret U-2 data at the peak of cold war tension, it's not proving it by paying attention to his case.†   (source)
  • A method of production that will custom-cater to cultural and personal needs, not to cold war ideologies of massive uniformity.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, he had run for president on a platform of change, promising the nation a new start after the cold war policies of Dwight Eisenhower.†   (source)
  • And that was the Ballad of Louis Bakey told to a thousand airmen on wind-howling bases through the short days and long years of constant alert in the dark and stoic heart of cold war winters.†   (source)
  • I don't see the cold war winding down.†   (source)
  • Many in Washington believe that overthrowing the pro-Soviet Castro will go a long way toward restoring equilibrium to the cold war.†   (source)
  • You see the cold war winding down.†   (source)
  • Words that will heal a nation divided by McCarthyism, terrified of the cold war, and still struggling with racial segregation and discrimination.†   (source)
  • And when the cold war goes out of business, you won't be able to look at some woman in the street and have a what-do-you-call-it kind of fantasy the way you do today.†   (source)
  • The cold war that has raged between the two nations for more than a decade is now clearly tipped in the Soviets' favor.†   (source)
  • The cold war is your friend.†   (source)
  • The cold war is behind us, he's saying, all the while implying that the future is a Camelot for all Americans.†   (source)
  • Even as the president's speech brilliantly links the Mona Lisa and the politics of the cold war, it is Jackie who orchestrates every last detail of this very special night.†   (source)
  • A growing number of Americans agree with Jackie that the Kennedy White House is a similarly mythical place and a bulwark of idealism in the midst of the cold war.†   (source)
  • A few days later, on January 3, 1961, Castro inflamed the cold war fears of every American by announcing that "Cuba has the right to encourage revolution in Latin America."†   (source)
  • The cold war is raging.†   (source)
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