cold war

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used in print October 1945 by George Orwell; popularized in U.S. c.1947 by Bernard Baruch.

The President's order was related to the advent of the cold war.

The cold war enemy has kidnapped your fiancee and taken her to their motherland.

The thought went through his mind, a general in the cold war.

We have avoided both the acts and the rhetoric of the cold war.

Our objective is not to continue the cold war, but to end it.

The end of the cold war has been a victory for all humanity.

In foreign affairs the country became a cold war participant completely accepting directions from Moscow.

This happening was not—repeat, was not—in any way associated with the cold war of such long standing.

And we have a cold war with only one country, and they're the only ones who'd play a deadly trick like this.

The cold war ends, Lockley, because there couldn't be a conquering army in the modern sense.

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noun enmity without hostilities

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