Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Day breaks wet and chilly, with the sound of harness bells and calls of "Wagons ho!" The teams-matched pairs of Belgians, palominos and Arabians -walk out briskly, followed by Shetland ponies and mules. Hitched to faithfully copied new versions of Conestogas and prairie schooners, the animals are pointed toward...
There, without dissent, the disparate colonies of America at last took the step that severed their 169-year-old political ties with the mother country, proclaiming that they "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." Independence?the process as painful and bloody as birth?represents a...
The elections of June 20 and 21 left the Christian Democrats (DC) with about 39 per cent of the vote in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies (an increase of some 3.5 per cent over their showing in the regional elections of 1975). The Communists, on the other...
Trying to hold on to power at any price, the DC portrayed the left as a united and anti-democratic front, with whom there could be no "historic compromise." Ironically, the result of their attitude seems to have been a hitherto-unseen unity among the PCI and the smaller parties...
The British have many sterling qualities, but right now sterling is not one of them. Just four months ago the pound was worth $2.02. Last week sterling tumbled no less than four cents against the dollar in a matter of a few hours. It dipped to a historic low of...