Word: 1600s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were the first black slaves in the Americas to gain independence from their white overlords? If your answer is the Haitians, you are wrong by more than 100 years. Correct answer: the bushmen of Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, who escaped from their Dutch slave masters in the early 1600s, established a nation of small villages in the jungle and won a century-long guerrilla war against the European colonists and their mercenaries...
...seems ironic that 54% of the American public opposes helping the South Vietnamese refugees. When white men fled from England during the 1600s, they were "refugees" who fled in fright from the powerful grip of the King and Queen...
...family has been in public office," he says. "We've always been bankers, businessmen, public officials. It's a natural thing." The Shriver pride is an inherited trait. "We're nicer than the Kennedys," his mother once said. "We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland...
...Maddocks sounds like the Miss Fidditch of the 1600s who was constantly admonishing her school charges not to use that "vulgar" word you, but rather the "correct" thee, thou, thy and thine. Languages have always changed, such change is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy," and neither the admonitions of a Miss Fidditch nor a Melvin Maddocks will do very much to affect our use of that magnificent and mysterious thing we call language...