Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drama Contemporary: Latin America...
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST time Reagan has failed to pay attention to his foreign policy. At one point in Reagan's 1982 visit to Latin America he called for a toast to "the people of Bolivia," even though he was in Brazil. The president attempted to explain away the error by saying that Bolivia was his next stop when, in fact, Columbia was his next stop and he was not scheduled to visit Bolivia...
...bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have the same paralyzing repercussions. Throughout much of Europe, especially across the Latin, Catholic southern tier, there is greater cynicism about political conduct...
...cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled across the sign in Latin "Mirabile Dictu!" (Strange...
...game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests.) Few knew what the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons were when a pro basketball team played under that name. (They were players owned by Fred Zollner, who also happened...