Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lately been celebrated as a pamphleteer against the British Crown. A gaunt unkempt figure racked with gout, Lee is highly critical of other men's soldierly skills. "Booby-in-chief' was his sobriquet for one hapless general under whom he served during the French and Indian...
Like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus on a similar occasion, General Putnam is celebrated in New England for leaving his plow in mid-furrow to go to fight the British. Even before that, the general was a local legend as "Old Put," homespun hero of the French and Indian War, who escaped scalping only by a mixture of courage and guile...
...United States assembled" will have the exclusive right to make war and peace, to deal with foreign nations, to regulate foreign trade, to settle territorial and other disputes among the colonies, and to negotiate with all the Indian tribes living beyond the colonial frontiers...
...peak year of 1771, while American exports only tripled, to £1.3 million. The actual trade deficit with England was running at an annual rate of £1.6 million in the first half of this decade. And the American dependence was real enough, with Britain and its West Indian colonies taking most of colonial exports?tobacco, flour, fish, rice, indigo, in that order?and providing most of the Colonies' imports, mostly textiles, manufactured products and utensils from Britain, salt, sugar and molasses for rum making from the West Indies...
...shillings in Pennsylvania currency per barrel. New Yorkers are buying refined sugar at exactly double the cost of three months ago (1 shilling 3 pence, v. 2 shillings 6 pence per pound). And tavern keepers throughout the Colonies are bitterly protesting the intoxicated prices of West Indian rum, now running as much as 110 percent higher than last whiter. Even the humble pin is no longer humble in cost. A woman in Braintree, Massachusetts, complains: "The cry for pins is so great that what I used to buy for 7 shillings and 6 pence are now 20 shillings...