Word: dictu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEY sit next to you in class. They eat next to you in the dining halls. They even use the same libraries as you, when they actually have to study or (mirabile dictu) take out a book...
...signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled across the sign in Latin "Mirabile Dictu!" (Strange...
Today that argument is hardly heard anymore in the Central American context. Something happened. The Salvadoran guerrillas are in retreat, and yet, mirabile dictu, root causes remain. The tides have changed, while poverty and misery endure. As for Nicaragua, those most habituated to the use of the root cause argument are contra opponents. They are hardly likely to invoke it to explain -- i.e., legitimize -- the contra cause...