Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That day hasn't arrived," the president said when asked about Gorbachev's statement declaring an end to the "epoch of the Cold...
...stated, both of us, that the world leaves one epoch of Cold War and enters another epoch," Gorbachev said at an unprecedented joint news conference that marked the end of two days of storm-tossed talks held aboard a Soviet luxury liner. "We are just at the very beginning of our long road to a long-lasting peaceful period...
Early on, Hitler had a central insight: "All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but by the spoken word." He concentrated on an inflammatory speaking style flashing with dramatic gestures and catch phrases: "Germany, awake!" He ingeniously added a series of symbols that caught the national imagination. The most powerful was the Hakenkreuz (hooked cross), set in a circle and inscribed on a banner. "In red," he proclaimed, "we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalist idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan...
...after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once and for all a tragic, painful epoch to be able to open a new page in the history of our nation...
Daumier: An Epoch Observed--MFA through July...