Word of the Day
Since the 1950s, the central tenet of US foreign policy and security strategy had been to "contain" the Soviet Union and communist domination and influence. -- George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed
The prospect was daunting, not least because Evelyn was still a redoubtable figure on campus whom I saw almost every day and to whom I went for advice almost as regularly. -- Keith Stewart Thomson, "The Common But Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays"
