Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The historic decision came in 1972, after five years without an execution, and just as fierce public majorities were forming in support of capital punishment. In Furman vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court nullified all 40 death-penalty statutes and the sentences of 629 death-row inmates, declaring that judges and...
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Nativity scenes that grace courthouse lawns have nothing to do with the religion Christ founded. They are portrayals of his birth based on a historic document, the Bible.
RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW outside the Statehouse last Thursday, but inside that historic building, at precisely 12:12 p.m., sunshine broke through after four years of gloom. Michael S. Dukakis, taking the oath of office, was beginning his term as governor of the Commonwealth. Only minutes before, Edward J. King...
The risks, according to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, are "without precedent in the postwar world." Says British Financier Lord Lever: "The banking system of the Western world is now dangerously overexposed. If lending abruptly contracts, there will be an avalanche of large-scale defaults that will inflict damage...
He is sometimes described by tabloid newspaper writers as "the plucky little King," but he is known to old Middle East hands as an accomplished tactician who has managed to hold on to the precarious throne of Jordan for the past 30 years. Last week King Hussein went to Washington...