Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demise of the initials U.S.S.R. will mean that one classic Beatles tune will become archaic. But initials are tricky things. The Soviets (or ex- Soviets, as the case may be) should be careful not to name their country the Basically United Sovereign Territories...
...almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, "The gulf crisis revealed the weak influence of our diplomacy, the modest competitiveness of our industrialists and above all the archaic state of our military equipment...
...story was printed in the Tribune. It was picked up by the AP wire. Soon I had calls from half a dozen media organs; all apparently regarded our obstinacy as an arrogant, archaic, even quixotic gesture, something akin to kicking the pope out of a restaurant because he wasn't wearing a jacket...
...calendar is a step in the right direction. But the Council recommendation--which would condense winter and spring exam periods by two days and facilitate a slightly longer intersession and a slightly earlier summer dismissal--does not go far enough. If we want to fix the flaws of the archaic calendar, we should do it right. Here...
Essentially, tarpon are huge archaic herring. In Florida they regularly grow to 150 lbs. (the world record on fly is 188 lbs.), but in Belize they are smaller, up to about 100 lbs. They are beautiful creatures, sheathed in scales the size of silver dollars, glittering, pugnacious, spooky and inedible: the only thing you can do with a tarpon, in the unlikely event that you catch it, ) is let it go. But as a rule you have no choice about letting a tarpon go. It just goes...