Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophet Without Honor. To many of his critics, France's towering, turbulent leader seems, as H. G. Wells once said, to be "an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Catholic Novelist François Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order...
While Red China's aggression was pushing India away from its historic policy of nonalignment, it had the ironic counter-effect of nudging once staunchly pro-Western Pakistan toward neutralism.
The U.S. has begun to react to these fowl blows. In Geneva, Senator J. William Fulbright from chicken-fat Arkansas interrupted a debate over nuclear weapons for NATO forces to protest Continental hostility to U.S. chickens. Conferring with Konrad Adenauer about Berlin this month, John Kennedy also brought up broilers...
A capacity crowd of 39,000 witnessed Saturday's historic battle, in which both teams played slightly below their potential. Undoubtedly the weather and the tension contributed to this, but it was not at all untypical of a Harvard-Yale game.
But when the ballots were counted, the results were 8 to 6 in favor of keeping the Mathews mansion as a historic site. Said Calkins last week: "What happened on election day shows that Americans have a far livelier sense of obligation to the past-and to posterity-than many...