Word: epochally
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...Race Driver Mark Thatcher, 28, the son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the 390-vehicle Paris-to-Dakar rally lived up to its promise as "the last possible adventure in our epoch." Nine days into the harrowing 6,200-mile course, Thatcher, Co-Driver Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week...
...small side street in Bangkok, does much more than restore antiquities. With astonishing ease and almost frightening frequency, Yas can sculpt his own "ancient" Khmer art, so convincing in style and apparent age that his works have passed expert scrutiny as genuine treasures of Angkor's golden epoch...
Charles Lamb groaned forth that question in the 19th century, but anybody in any epoch ought to be able to answer it with a simple yes. Anybody, that is, who has ever had a cold...
...cross by researching 12th-century documents from the area surrounding Winchester, Hoving deciphers the many inscriptions on the 30-inch figure. He carries the reader step by step through his discoveries, not only conveying the meaning of the cross in its time, but also the flavor of the entire epoch...
...there are some very obstinate misunderstandings. Among my Western interlocutors everybody agrees that the Polish events are of historical importance; some add that they have actually opened a new epoch in contemporary history. Almost everybody sympathizes with the Polish cause and maintains that the creation of Solidarity was probably the only possible way to change the decaying system in a peaceful manner. But at this point, the misunderstandings emerge. Sooner or later my Western interlocutor expresses the opinion that the whole things is very risky. Too risky, and that the Poles themselves do not understand...