During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals and themselves and nothing seemed to stir but the smoke curling upwards from clay chimneys and an occasional red-winged blackbird which r...
Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant.
Even over cold pudding, the coward says: "It will burn my mouth."
The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know.
You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one.
Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.
You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.
A blanket, as the epitome of warmth, could be used to stop colds. Also, sex with me might be the surest way to prevent a cold.
A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming—and that you are warm. Where’s the cold war when you need it?
A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm
The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.
i'm like a mirror if you're cool with me, i'll be cool with you. if you're cold with me, i'll be cold with you. if you're naked with me, i'll be naked with you.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
