Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/April 17

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Word of the day
for April 17
Cold War proper n
  1. (historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.

Yesterday, 16 April, was the 75th anniversary of the date in 1947 when Bernard Baruch, an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, first used the term to describe the political situation referred to above in a speech written by the journalist Herbert Bayard Swope.

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