Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayors have traditionally taken their oath of office on the city hall steps at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, but Lindsay decided to make a change. The father of four young children (aged 5 to 15), he ordered the ceremony for 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve so that the kids could see it without missing their bedtimes. Next day he repeated the oath and delivered his inaugural address on the steps of city hall only hours after the city had been paralyzed by the strike. "New Yorkers have always sought out the newest and best in their...
...news broke quietly on New Year's Eve. A wire-service report announced that Belgian-controlled Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, which annually mines 314,000 tons of copper in the Congo, was increasing the price of the metal from 380 a pound...
Between Two Epochs. Mrs. Tuchman finds equal significance in the Dreyfus Affair: "While it lasted, France exhibited, as in the Revolution, political man at his most combative. Men plunged up to the hilt of their capacities and beliefs. They held nothing back. On the eve of the new century the Affair revealed what energies and ferocities were at hand to greet it." And as Jaurès' death dramatized, it was the era in which the Socialist notion that all the workers of the world could unite on anything turned out to be fantasy...
...Transit Authority was equally ineffective at the bargaining table. Unable to tell what the union really wanted, and what the T.A. could obtain from the city and the state, it made no offer at all. Finally, on the eve of the walkout, the T.A. made a $25 million proposal based on President Johnson's 3.2 per cent non-inflationary guidelines...
...eve of the war for Texas' independence, the corps provided socially useful employment for the local gunslingers-since they were bound to shoot somebody, it might as well be enemies of Texas. The gunslingers, delighted to be doing for pay ($1.25 a day) what they would normally have done for pleasure, proved remarkably effective, and in 1848, when the U.S. declared war on Mexico, they went roaring across the border like a platoon of panthers. Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed...