Word: epochs
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...scandals. They would do well to hark back to their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth, serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." The colonies may be gone, but Churchill showed how the supple power of the English language - whose reach still grows - can forge an empire on which the sun need never...
...These next four weeks are going to be weeks that will change central Europe forever,” said Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Poland’s ambassador to the U.S. “We would like to conclude the epoch of these first 10 years after gaining independence with a bang, not a whimper...
...imagine what an epoch it was in my life when, unexpectedly two weeks ago, I got closer to fame than ever before, the before being the time I spotted Kato Kaelin in ninth grade and ran five blocks to make sure it was really...
...Abraham would appear ill suited to the job. To make a nation, one must have an heir, and he is a childless 75-year-old whose wife Sarah is past menopause. Yet he complies, and he and Sarah set off for a desert hinterland--Canaan--and a new spiritual epoch...
Toward the end of the Eocene epoch 35 million years ago, temperatures plummeted and the Earth's primitive inhabitants endured a cold spell that lasted 100,000 years. The length of that ordeal and what brought it on have long puzzled experts. Various theories to explain it have been put forward--from variations in solar output to changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis--and generally dismissed. Now two scientists, writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research, have proposed a novel idea: the possibility that our planet was once encircled by a huge, Saturn-like ring created...