Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their courageous action today in voting for the Panama Canal neutrality treaty. I am confident that the Senate will show the same courage and foresight when it considers the second treaty. This is a promising step toward a new era in our relationships with Panama and with all of Latin America." He singled out Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, Gerald Ford and John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
Riesman said that the graduates of the best parochial high schools tend to write well and read thoughtfully. He attributed this in part to the separation of sexes in these schools, and also to the teaching of Latin which "increases one's knowledge of vocabulary and sensitizes one to syntax...
...breaking the vital German flag code in World War I and finding a crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade, he took a vow of poverty...
...past three years, the smuggling of drugs from Latin America has become Florida's growth industry, a multibillion-dollar business involving private airlines and speedboats, Mafia connections and high-priced lawyers. Arrayed against them is the collective might of the U.S. Customs Service, the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. The good guys are clearly losing the battle. Last year Feds in the Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount...
...also has one. In fact, of the 14 Gutenbergs in the U.S., nearly all can be seen in libraries. Each volume is about 16 in. high, 24 in. across when opened, and contains either 648 or 634 pages. Americans, who by and large have given up the study of Latin, may be put off by the fact that all copies begin, "In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram...