Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem, annexing the latter, in the June, 1967 Six-Day War. "The U.S. has always taken the position that Jerusalem is an occupied territory," McHenry said...
Wasteful as it may have been, his prodigality and womanizing proclivities entertain. For the latter he was notorious. Father of a dozen bastards and no legitimate children, he was never faithful to his barren wife, but always kind, angrily rejecting suggestions that he divorce her. Charles told censorious Bishop Burnet that he was convinced God would never damn a man "for allowing himself a little pleasure." A modern point of view, and an appealing one; we find it difficult to condemn the indolent hedonism of Charles II's later years, even though it seems he allowed himself more than...
...move could turn out to be Moscow's first big step toward the oil and warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Historian George Kennan and other defenders of détente say no, the Kremlin was acting defensively to shore up its southern border. Not surprisingly, the latter interpretation is endorsed in the Soviet Union. Also not surprisingly, an insistence on the defensive, legitimate and temporary nature of the Afghan operation echoed throughout interviews conducted by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott during a tour of Transcaucasia and Central Asia...
...persistently call in question the demands of a government which is quite clearly carrying out its functions in a reasonably law-abiding and responsible manner. Either that, or constant Marxist pressure on the universities! The irrational response of protesting under all and any circumstances, quite clearly comes from the latter...
...Aptitude (SAT) in 1926. Previously, the Board, which was established in 1900 to standardize the admissions examinations given by Harvard, Princeton, Yale and a few other selective colleges, administered a written essay examinations. The SAT and the essays coexisted until World War II, when the Board indefinitely discontinued the latter. Educational Testing Service (ETS) officials will account and admit, to their chagrin, the stories related to the first IQ tests, which were designed for the purpose of ethnic exclusion. One run on Ellis Island in 1912 concluded that 83 per cent of Jews, 90 per cent of Hungarians...