单词 | cold war |
释义 | > as lemmascold war cold war n. hostilities short of armed conflict, consisting in threats, violent propaganda, subversive political activities, or the like; spec. those between the U.S.S.R. and the western powers after the Second World War (1939–45); also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > cold war political warfare1765 propaganda war1838 white war1931 phoney war1939 sitzkrieg1940 cold war1945 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in Tribune 19 Oct. 8/1 A State which was..in a permanent state of ‘cold war’ with its neighbours. 1946 Observer 10 Mar. 4/3 After the Moscow Conference last December,..Russia began to make a ‘cold war’ on Britain and the British Empire. 1947 W. Lippmann (title) The cold war. A study in U.S. foreign policy. 1947 N.Y. Times 17 Apr. 21/4 Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war. 1948 Hansard Commons CCCCXLVI. 411 The British Government..should recognize that the ‘cold war’, as the Americans call it, is on in earnest, that the third world war has, in fact, begun. 1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 61 Cold war propaganda. 1950 N.Y. Times 5 Feb. 42L/2 A ‘cold war’ was in progress..as the police..dared Georgia's revenue agents to invade Alabama. 1951 W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. Earl Beatty xvi. 376 The ‘cold war’ which Beatty had to wage throughout his term of office for British maritime security was on two fronts. 1958 Listener 14 Aug. 224/2 World communism..is rejecting a policy of partial disengagement in the cold war. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 18 Public concern with cold-war espionage was then at its height with the..conviction in Moscow of a British business man. 1967 Spectator 30 June 757/3 Only in Europe after a decade of cold war..has confrontation given way to the kind of mutually recognised status quo. < as lemmas |
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