Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In fact, what led to Israel's invasion of Lebanon was not Israel's fear of attack, but rather its fear of peace. Since the July, 1981 ceasefire, the PLO had been demonstrating itself to be a reliable negotiating partner, one capable of disciplining the disparate elements which forms it...
Bunyanesque waves as high as 16 ft. crunched homes and municipal piers into little more than kindling wood. The raging surf destroyed Esther, the man-made oil-well island off the coast of Huntington Beach. The heavy seas bit off a 400-ft. section of the historic Santa Monica pier...
Dominated by a host of fears, it was an election that inevitably took on the dimensions of a historic turning point. For nearly a quarter of a century, West German political contests had been fought out on the familiar ground of a broad national consensus on defense, foreign policy and...
Now the bankers' blitz is stirring a backlash. Senator Bob Dole, a central target of the lobbying effort for his role in the passage of the tax bill, has turned on his tormentors with particular vigor. At a meeting of the A.B. A. last month, he accused it of...
The patient was weak, exhausted, his face looking almost pained when it flashed onto the television screen, and his comments were haltingly slow. But it was not the mechanical heart that troubled Barney Clark as he gave his first public interview since his historic operation on Dec. 1. "The heart...