Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's new generation of student leaders undoubtedly had their rebellious predecessors in mind when they chose to conduct the first protest in the latest round of outbreaks on Dec. 9. The date is a revered one: 51 years ago, during the "Dec. 9 movement" of 1935, thousands of students...
Every season brought something to celebrate. A breathtaking slide in oil prices made gasoline cheaper than it had been since 1979. Inflation fell so low that it actually ran backward for several months. Even the tax system, of all things, changed for the better when Congress delivered a historic reform...
The historic petroleum price plunge of 1986 could be traced to September 1985, when Saudi Arabia got fed up with its dwindling share of the world's oil market and decided to reverse completely its traditional strategy of holding back production to prop up prices. Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki...
The cease-fire was signed at Manila's Club Filipino, the sumptuous establishment in the suburb of Greenhills where President Aquino took her oath of office ten months ago. She was not present for the historic moment. Instead, along with her friend and adviser Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of...
No, the tasteful capital letters elevate this football match into something vaguely historic, like The Hundred Years War. The Game is capitalized, as if it were a philosophy like Taoism or a nation like America.