Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was, trumpeted North Viet Nam's official daily, Nhan Dan, "a festival of the completion of national reunification." In Hanoi and Saigon, as well as scores of other cities, towns and hamlets in between, streets and squares were festooned with banners and painted maps that showed North and...
The Bruins, meanwhile, were eliminated from Stanley Cup by the Flyers, 6-3, as Reggie Leach clicked for the first five Philly goals. Leach's first tally, to give the Flyers a 1-0 first-period advantage, marked the ninth consecutive playoff contest in which he had scored a goal...
The Christian Democrats (DC) have proved increasingly incapable of governing Italy. The past few years have seen an endless succession of collapsing cabinets; in the face of waves of strikes and political violence, the DC has been unable to enact badly needed social reforms. The lira has fallen drastically and...
The legendary Walter Hagen was an energetic stripling of twelve and in the seventh grade when one day he chanced to glance out the window of his classroom and saw two golfers sauntering down the fairway of the Rochester Country Club shouldering their own bags. The irrepressible call to the...
The author characterizes the present ministry as exuding "deep introspection and piety reminiscent of the traditional parish priest." Although a marked emphasis is placed on communal and individual spiritual expression, that "deep introspection" would more appropriately be labeled "meditative reflection." This reflection summons the individual to contemplate God's promise...