Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pact nations. In Brussels this week, Brown is expected to emphasize, as Carter did last week, that NATO must improve its combat readiness and upgrade the training and equipment of its forces. "The main message I'll take to that meeting," the Secretary remarked, "will be that with the advent of rough parity in strategic forces between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, we can't rely solely on nuclear weapons" to deter a conventional attack against Western Europe. Brown has already begun bolstering U.S. conventional forces by adding some $600 million?to improve, among other things, maintenance facilities...
...advent of Fannie Merritt Farmer was an historic watershed. Before her, women wrote of cooking with love; she made it a laboratory exercise. She embodied, if that is not too earthy a word, all the major ills of twentieth-century culinary teaching. She was the maiden aunt of home economics...
...with the advent of the Georgia mafia and lots of rhetoric about new faces, that kind of mass migration was just not going to be repeated. Those few Harvard academics who started preaching peanut power last spring seemed genuinely pessimistic about their own chances for an administration post, so administrators like Champion--who had supported other candidates--were largely ignored...
...devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
...advent of Murdoch, publishing tycoon on three continents, is of more than parochial New York City interest: he gave promise, with his money and his maverick irreverence, of brightening up the increasingly sedate American newspaper scene. The trend is all the other way: newspapers in monopoly cities being sold for huge sums to absentee conglomerates. Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves. So far Murdoch, a fellow refreshingly free of cultural pretensions...