Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.A.R.'s undoubted tampering with trouble was not so critical a factor in the Lebanese deadlock as the Lebanese government claimed. "The Observation Group believes," said his U.N. group's first report from Beirut, "that the progressive implementation of its mandate will contribute greatly to the creation within Lebanon of conditions which will make possible the solution by the Lebanese people themselves of the internal problems which face the country at the present time...
Painter Dali called his creation Crisalida and explained in his notes: "The outer structure of Miltown is that of a chrysalis, maximum symbol of the vital nirvana which paves the way for the dazzling dawn of the butterfly, in its turn the symbol of the human soul." Any resemblance between Miltown and a chrysalis, doctors agreed, was confined to Dali's fancy. Still, the word chrysalis is derived from the Greek for gold, and no matter how untranquilizing Dali's work might be, as an attention-getter it was worth its weight in gold to Miltown...
...Most of the world," said Lawyer Rhyne, "doesn't know the International Court exists. It has 15 judges who sit at The Hague waiting for work. It has decided only an average of slightly more than one case per year since its creation in 1945. The entire court, or even a chamber, should sit rather constantly at U.N. headquarters. The law then would move more to the forefront in the deliberations of the U.N." He added: "Let the free nations of the world agree on a plan to snuff out war among themselves before the next step of tackling...
Despite his debunking Missouri skepticism, Twain let himself be thrilled, too. He went as gaga as a vacationing schoolmarm before the beauties of Versailles ("an exquisite dream"), the cathedral in Milan ("The princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived") and the Acropolis by moonlight ("All the beauty in all the world combined could not rival it"). As if half-ashamed of such ecstatic outbursts, he lapsed into heavy-handed gags about "Mike" Angelo and the tomb of Lazarus ("I had rather live in it than in any house in the town"). Even in such jests Twain foreshadowed an emergent...
...would seem that these developments--along with the creation of the College Scholarship Service, and the growing interest in urban renewal around Cambridge--were the matters of University policy which had the clearest portents for the future...