Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's that time of year again. The weather is brisk; the Yard is filled with crimson-clad alumni; and the streets are jammed with the onslaught of visitors. Energized by the fiery and historic competition and hoping for another exciting victory--go Harvard, go!--I start to hum some...
The most historic thing that happened on Tuesday was not that a Democratic President was re-elected for the first time since 1936 or a Republican Congress for the first time since 1930. Nor was it that both things happened at the same time. In 220 years, no Democrat has...
Yet in the end not much changed. Republicans kept control of both the Senate and the House. In one way, that might be called a historic outcome: it was the first time in 68 years that the G.O.P. maintained control of both chambers through two straight elections. But though the...
It didn't. But by the time he took the stage of a suburban Atlanta hotel to celebrate keeping control of the House, having won his own easy re-election against a millionaire cookie magnate, the larger battle had dragged on to almost 3 a.m. Only a few dozen of...
"Two years ago was a historic year with a huge Republican freshman class, and [the Heritage orientation] wasn't too far away from Washington, and many members were enthusiastic about it," he said. "It was a matter of scheduling and priority."