Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation's 20th largest oil firm, which had 1981 sales of $8.5 billion...
...cast of characters was utterly right, a collection that Dickens would have imagined if he had been a late 20th century American Nixon himself was a masterpiece of internal disharmonies, with a face-the discomfited scowl, the sudden stabbingly inappropriate smile-like five cats and a bitter Calvinist thrown into a Hefty bag. There was G. Gordon Liddy, the wild hair Nietzsche who held his hand in candle flames. There was Martha Mitchell, the Aunt Pittypat embarrassment and midnight telephone dipso who turned into an oracle...
...before, to be fully reconciled among themselves. For the sin of disunity among Christians, which has been with us for centuries, weighs heavily on the church." He continued, "The restoration of unity among Christians is one of the main concerns of the church in the last part of the 20th century. And this task is for all of us. No one can claim exemption." England's George Basil Cardinal Hume later said he was overwhelmed by the applause with which the Anglican audience responded...
Pearl's interest in modernism was partly political. "It seemed to me that the artist in the 20th century was the closest thing to a real leader. Politicians haven't been as effective leaders as modern artists," she says, adding that "Today, nobody's leading anybody we're all sheep Not just at Harvard, but all over...
...things like that is that you get to meet interesting people. If you're joining a club because you're impressed with connections or something, that's the wrong way," he sighs and then adds. "There is that anomaly, though, to have organizations like that in the 20th century...