Word: aforethought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to terms with American independence in 1783, the fighting ceased in the populous east. But west of the Appalachians, the frontier settlements found themselves still at war. Indians, supplied and encouraged by the British, attacked forts, raided settlements and terrorized isolated settlers. The British, with well-conceived malice aforethought, were trying hard to stem the westward surge of the energetic new Americans. They came in on foot along Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River on flatboats. A flatboat, though little more than a raft thrown together at the headwaters of the Ohio...
...Super-Americans, by John Bainbridge. Reporter Bainbridge traveled to Texas and with malice aforethought reported exactly what he found there. The result is high social satire, and a welcome capital gain for the reader...
...Lake George happened, in varying degrees of violence, in dozens of cities, towns and resort centers across the U.S. last week. At Ocean City, Md., police used K-9 dogs to break up a mob of 2,000 beer-swilling students. Many had come to town with mischief aforethought: their cars bore signs that read, "Fill Your Flask and Come to the Second Annual Ocean City Riot." At Wildwood, N.J., where merrymaking teen-agers did $1,500 worth of damage to one hotel, police arrested 160 over the weekend, imposed $6,000 worth of fines for disorderly conduct. At Clermont...
...that Gulliver's Travels, his epic of disgust for men and all their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead, and the little Yahoos will love...