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Form of hostility that never heats up?
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cold war
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The Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the late 1970s. The United ...
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n. The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, 1945–91.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Britains aerospace industries suffered badly when the cold war ended 4 years ago. ▪ Forget the Berlin Wall itself, there are some lovely kiosks selling cold war kitsch. ▪ Since the cold war ended, many state intelligence agencies ...
Usage examples of cold war.
They're small, by our standards, because they're left over from the Grayson-Masada cold war, but there are a lot of them, and they've been heavily refitted and rearmed.
It was instinctive, this need for secrecy and caution, a lesson I had learned the hard way during the Cold War.
Even in the Cold War against Soviet Russia in the late twentieth century, it could be argued that the democracies of Old Earth won by waging an economic war, and a war of ideas, while constantly preparing for real war.
Historians argue as to the extent that the cold war invaded American life, but all agree that the looming threat of communism and nuclear annihilation put a damper on the celebration of American prosperity in the postwar era and the 1950s.