Word: advent
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...statement cited the need for more trained experts on Soviet affairs, especially since the advent of the detente policy. Russia's institute for study of the United States (modeled after Harvard's Russian Research Center) has begun a major expansion, the statement said...
...gutta percha ball required a more resilient shaft; the solution was supplied by hickory, which reigned supreme until the advent of steel in the age of Bobby Jones...
...Eliot, Robert Frost, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell. All these literary luminaries went to Harvard but none majored in Option III, the creative writing program within the English concentration. Of course, they were all here well before the advent of the option a short five years ago, but even if they had had the opportunity to apply for admission to the highly selective program, one might wonder if any of the above writers would have been accepted...
Just a year before L.B.J.'s advent in Appalachia, Harry Caudill, a lawyer from the University of Kentucky who is descended from the earliest settlers of the Cumberland Plateau, wrote a small classic, Night Comes to the Cumberlands. The book detailed with angry eloquence the paradox of a people who had grown "shockingly poor" in a land stuffed with "valuable natural resources." In The Watches of the Night, an equally indignant, equally effective broadside, Caudill updates that gloomy report. Appalachia in the '60s, he suggests, was L.B.J.'s and America's domestic Viet Nam: a confrontation...
...worthies gathered last week when President Ford quietly signed into law a broad, new and long-overdue revision of U.S. copyright legislation. So old was the last law (1909) that if it could have been copyrighted, the copyright would have been due to expire ten years ago. Despite the advent of such undreamed-of complications as TV and photocopiers, the battles over changes dragged on through 20 years. "The new law has seen righting and its body shows some scars," says John Hersey, president of the Authors' League. "But on the whole it is a good bill...