Word: columbianization
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Until such bold adventurers as Verrazano and Hudson penetrated its unpolluted waters, North America enjoyed extraordinary freedom from epidemics. In pre-Columbian times there had been no plague (Black Death), cholera, yellow fever, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria or even measles...
Nonetheless, López Portillo mounted a grueling campaign to get acquainted with the voters, only a few hundred of whom had even heard his name when Echeverria picked him last September. Since then, his campaign bus Quetzalcoatl (for the plumed serpent of pre-Columbian lore) has logged 40,600 miles, traversing the countryside from the humid south to the High Sierras...
Readers of Evan Connell's The Connoisseur already know Karl Muhlbach, the middle-aged insurance executive and widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double Honeymoon, Muhlbach again decides to take a risk within limits. This time it is a brief fling with a beautiful young girl every bit as exotic and cracked as a piece of pre-Columbian pottery...
...only undefeated Crimson player this weekend was Levy, who scored a sound 6-2, 6-2 victory over his Columbian opponent in the fifth singles postion. The first doubles team of Adler and Waldman rallied to win in three sets by the scores...
...Bliss and her husband, Robert W. Bliss, formally transferred their estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard to house the Center for Byzantine Studies. Later a collection of pre-Columbian art and a library of garden design were added...