Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation tires of exertions abroad. After World War I, the U.S. rejected membership in the League of Nations, adopted a restrictive immigration policy and eventually enacted high tariff barriers. It took Pearl Harbor and then communist expansionism to make internationalism the basis of U.S. foreign policy. Even during the heyday of the effort to contain communism, "the public never fully bought the challenge," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "Only a bipartisan consensus among elites kept the country's latent isolationism...
...October 1942 I was chosen for a survey team of Southeast Asia. That was our heyday. I remember army and navy officers wanting to load Johnnie Walker out of the Hong Kong depot onto our plane, but the strip was too short; it ; never did get aboard. Those were the days when Japanese soldiers tried to eat Camay soap as a cake...
Dixon says that now that "it is no longer necessary to rely on the older, established family connections," the traditional independents may have seen their heyday...
...fast and for Crimson tacklers, he was about as difficult to take down as the Redskins' John Riggins was in his heyday...
...ancestors. Washington Irving's 1828 A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus glorified a commanding character with an Italian name and sailing under a Spanish flag who nonetheless displayed virtues and characteristics that U.S. citizens, most of them from northern Europe, could admire. Thus did the heyday of Columbus idolatry begin -- in an early attempt to provide the nation with the icons of multicultural diversity...