Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marshall, 53, the great-grandson of a Congolese native who was snatched from his homeland and transported to slavery in the U.S., for years has fought in the frontlines legal battle against U.S. segregation. Born in Baltimore, he earned degrees from Lincoln and Howard universities, holds seven honorary doctorates. During...
The historic news was buried in a routine Tass broadcast servicing newspapers in Central Asia. Picked up by an alert U.S. monitor in the Middle East, it was flashed to Washington, arrived at the White House just as President John Kennedy was leaving for a press conference in the auditorium...
Into West Berlin flowed more than 12,000 refugees from East Germany, in a great and historic flight from tyranny. In recent weeks, the number of Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's sugar-cane Communism has notably increased. Significantly, the refugees include fishermen, carpenters, and farmers desperate enough to cross...
Standing under an olive tree in Sicily in September 1943, an unsmiling American general accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his...
As the Punta del Este conference got under way late last week, it was obvious that many other chapters would be discussed. Opening the historic meeting, Chairman Victor Haedo of Uruguay's nine-man National Council called it a "rendezvous with duty." Said he: "We cannot waste an instant...