Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The academic year 1947-48 also marked the debut of the Marshall Plan, which Secretary of State George C. Marshall had announced with great fanfare in his historic 1947 commencement address.
It was a slow conversion. A semester after Secretary of State George C. Marshall presented his historic European Recovery Plan in Tercentenary Theater, Harvard had only begun to acclimate to the post-war era.
As the antitrust chief sees it, the computer industry is at a historic turning point. Web browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of...
John Holum, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, was even more hyperbolic. Less than two months ago, he urged the Senate to ratify the CTBT, calling it a "historic opportunity ... to finally ban nuclear-weapons testing of any size by anyone anywhere forever."
I have mixed feelings about Israel's celebration of its 50 years of statehood [WORLD, May 11]. The founding of the nation signified a birth to Jews but a burial to the Palestinians. Over time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away...