Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillor Walter J. Sullivan said he will seek reelection for what would be his 18th term...
...edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean away from where it happened...
...paintings, a part of the Law School's extensive collection of legal art, are of "British jurists of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries," the Truth Squad member said...
...bogey-bogey-bogey finish, including a three-putt green at the 18th, left a sour taste in his mouth following...
...TERRIBLE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES OF THE 18th century, thousands of Scots were driven from their farms so that landlords might turn the fields over to the mass grazing of sheep, a more efficient and profitable enterprise. The wool business prospered. The Highlanders starved or went to America. It was the end of one way of life. Or the beginning of another. Economics uprooted culture, and changed everything...