Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Dakota is declared "19th century." Perhaps it is because it still offers such rarities as a good education, breathable air, safe streets and decent public services, qualities nearly extinct in such "21st century" states as New York...
When the 14th game finally got under way, however, Fischer temporarily restored Spassky's spirits. As Bobby made his 21st move, U.S. Grand Master Larry Evans, who was following the play on a pocket chess set in the press room of the Reykjavik Sports Hall, gasped, and declared, "Bobby's blundered! He's dead lost!" Sure enough, Spassky forced an exchange of pieces that left Fischer a pawn behind and in dire straits. Then, just as shockingly, Boris committed a far more obvious blunder on his 27th move. "They've gone to pieces...
...global industrial output expands about 7% a year (as they do now), then some time during the life span of children born today, the world will begin running out of natural resources such as coal, oil and metals. For lack of them, industries will collapse by the mid-21st century (give or take a few decades). Because industries will no longer be able to produce enough fertilizers, pesticides or medicines, famine and epidemic will kill much of the human race, and the lives of the rest will fit Thomas Hobbes' description: "Nasty, brutish and short...
...winter." Finally, at Lakota, you turn right off Route 2 and head north on Route 1 toward Nekoma, once a town of "84 old people" and now the headquarters of the only U.S. ABM site. Suddenly it looms above the featureless landscape like some huge, misplaced Mayan temple, a 21st century monster squatting on the 19th century rural countryside of northeast North Dakota...
...news from Istanbul fell like a bomb on a gathering in Houston's Rice Hotel last week. There the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America was holding a formal dinner as part of its 21st Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress. Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of North and South America, rose to give a scheduled speech about the Ecumenical Patriarch, then told the delegates in a breaking voice: "Athenagoras is not with us any more. He is with God." The Patriarch's death was especially poignant because the congress was celebrating a "Double Jubilee," Athenagoras' 50th year...