Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some critics call her "the zinging nun" for her forthright attacks on feminists and other Catholic liberals who, in her view, confuse the faithful and weaken the church by daring to disagree with Pope John Paul II and his bishops...
...surfing was a glint in an engineer's eye, Zenith was a power to be reckoned with. The U.S. brand whose name suggests the summit of aspiration was born on a Chicago kitchen table in 1918, when two wireless-radio buffs turned out equipment for other amateurs. In the 1940s, Zenith went into making TV sets in a big way, and in 1956 it introduced the parents -- or grandparents -- of today's couch potatoes to the idea of remote control with its Space Command device...
Using the detective work of the Boston Police Department, state officials have located 73 of the 74 former residents of the Fernald State School who were used in radiation experiments during the 1940s and 1950s...
Another of the details that adds to the play is the style in which it is written. It resembles a radio serial show of the 1930s and 1940s. The same lines are repeated often by different characters, and pretty soon the order in which the lines were said is mixed up by the audience, smearing the time line of the action...
First, Harvard scientists conducted several nutrition and diagnostic experiments with radiation on retarded children at Massachusetts state schools during the 1940s and 1950s...