Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...launch its own 300-ship attack on the north of England. When Harold, having defeated the Scandinavians, rushed south again with 7,000 troops, William was outside Hastings. "For God's sake, spare not," he told his men. His well-deployed knights and archers eventually overwhelmed the exhausted Anglo-Saxon infantry. "The living marched over the heaps of the dead," wrote an early historian. By nightfall, Harold was slain...
Director Scott Hicks' version is faithful to the story's main beats. There's Ishmael, the physically and emotionally wounded hero (Hawke); Hatsue (Kudoh), the forbidden and then lost love of his childhood; her husband Kazuo (Yune), charged with killing an Anglo neighbor after a land dispute; and all kinds of characters who behave well and badly as his trial unveils the community's hatreds and suspicions...
...research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated each other's forms of thinking better...
...When I have been fortunate enough to travel to London, I hear the many dialects but see through to the German and Anglo-Saxon roots, the transparencies just beyond. The idiom is more immediate, or in an alternate-universe way. How did we settle on "Call me" instead of "Ring me"? "Putting me on" instead of "having me on"? Drugs money, way out--the Latin "exit" just wrenches you ever after! When you are frustrated by a friend, do you say, "it really does me brains in?" Will you next time, instead of "it bugs...
...fertility of a prematurely menopausal woman by reimplanting ovarian tissue removed--and frozen--years before. While the woman, a 30-year-old ballerina, has yet to try to conceive, one important first step has occurred: she ovulated and had a period. The still experimental technique, developed by an Anglo-American team, may help women undergoing sterility-causing chemotherapy to preserve their fertility--and just may extend the childbearing years beyond menopause...