Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, John Paul spoke to the women inmates of the prison about what had happened on this "historic day." Said the Pontiff: "In the context of Christmas and the Holy Year of Redemption, I was able to meet with the person that you all know by name, Ali Agca, who...
Morse added that lengthy negotiations between the University and the police union are "historic" and "give a chance for all to be heard."
The word was borrowed from the French, but the West Germans ushered in the new age in East-West relations with their own version, Ostpolitik (literally, Eastern policy). Its architect, Chancellor Willy Brandt, made a historic visit to Moscow in 1970 and signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union...
The unexpectedly warm encounter-some Middle East experts called it a "historic meeting"-had significance for both men. For Arafat it was a gamble, but also something of a diplomatic coup, coming so quickly after the expulsion from Tripoli. A rapprochement with Cairo, which had been isolated in the Arab...
"Shrewd and dangerous as a snake," as a general in Israeli intelligence describes him, Rifaat flexes his muscles through the 280 tanks and 15,000 troops of the Defense Companies. Charged with the defense of metropolitan Damascus, Rifaat's men have sometimes been called on to defend the government...