Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prior to 1947, The British began restoration of the badly eroded wall, which was built by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century on Roman ruins that are 1,400 years older. The Israelis have completed the wall's restoration and built a safe walkway on its ramparts. Strollers...
Okay, who's paying attention to this potentially historic weekend.'
First, the TTAPS findings should dampen the historic emphasis on developing ever more survivable nuclear forces. Though each of the superpowers has in absolute numbers weapons sufficient to destroy the other several times over strategists usually focus instead on the projected post strike balance. How much will be left in...
Although the playful antics of the astronauts on television were greeted with praise and rapt attention throughout most of the world, the reaction to the flight from the other major space power was as sour as borsch. Soviet TV noted only that failures were continuing to plague the Challenger on...
At the turn of the century, Back Bay was all genteel opulence and social superiority, magnificently expressed by Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church and McKim, Mead & White's public library on Copley Square. In the 1950s the area began to slide into a comfortable shabbiness. Most of...