Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sundown Monday, the weather had achieved folk-epic status, and the day was being widely touted as The Coldest of the 20th Century. Statisticians at the National Weather Service were unwilling to go that far. Yet it was they who confirmed that, indeed, alltime low-temperature records were broken in Chicago (-26°F) and Augusta, Ga. (1°), among other places, while Atlanta ( - 5°), Milwaukee (-25°) and Cincinnati (-14°) had not been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn...
Following a wave of riots and demonstrations that disrupted official celebrations of the 20th anniversary of South Africa as an independent republic last May, the security police have stepped up their campaign of repression. Since then, Winnie Mandela has been joined in her unusual exile by a dozen or so people, including Student Leader Andrew Boraine, son of an opposition member of parliament. At the same time, nearly 600 people have been detained without trial, some of them for as long as seven months. Among those arrested: 18 union and student leaders and, embarrassingly enough for the government, the niece...
...generation. Pale blue Pacific air, cuts and slices of gable, white posts by the sea, sudden drop-offs of hill or throughway-these images of the California coast have found their way into them, but in a condensed and fully digested idiom whose sources, far back in the early 20th century, are Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian...
...Sketches seems redundant at first. But for White watchers the book usefully calls attention to a pair of little-known personae: the Poet, a joyful writer of satiric occasional verse, and the Pessimist, a desperate fellow who served as a one-man distant-early-warning system for the late 20th century...
...roster of 20th century Presidents who have sampled the delights of fly fishing is impressive: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower and, of course, Jimmy Carter. In "Spruce Creek Diary," a 4,000-word article that appears in the current issue of Fly Fisherman, Carter, perhaps the most avid presidential devotee of the sport, recalls with affection his fishing vacation last May in Pennsylvania. In the piece, Carter laments the loss of two prized handcrafted fly rods, which were stolen during his move from Washington to Plains, Ga. "These rods, not the election campaign," he writes, "seemed...