Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On July 20, 1969, the day the astronauts landed on the moon, I celebrated my seventh birthday [SPACE, Aug. 9]. It is likely that I was more concerned with my birthday presents than with the historic event, but after visits to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Fla., I...
To the 42-year-old woman dubbed "Madame Loire" by the French press, this is a sacred duty. The Loire is France's longest river--630 miles from its source in south-central France to its estuary on the Atlantic--and one of the most historic. Generations of French kings...
Monica who? It seems an eternity since the name of Monica Lewinsky last came up in the nation?s affairs. But on Thursday, Lewinsky, and the whole national ordeal associated with her, resurfaced briefly in a long-in-arriving windup order from the judge who presided over the Paula Jones...
Clinton evidently took her words to heart. In their first session at the White House, he and Barak met for 2 1/2 hours with no aides present, not even a notetaker--a highly unusual format. Then the two men and their wives choppered to Camp David for a sleepover. After...
His father lived a life of meaning and drama, a heroic life that spanned less than 50 years and yet encompassed war and political tumult and the great ideological struggles of the day. J.F.K. Jr.'s life spanned 39 years--only seven fewer than his father's--and encompassed no...