Word: markedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The terrorists were told that their demands would not be met, but that they would be given safe conduct out of Thailand if they released the hostages. After an hour of talks, they agreed to these terms and were rewarded with a meal of curried chicken and Scotch whisky supplied...
One area where there has been marked progress toward children's rights is, appropriately, the first environment that the growing child encounters when he leaves home: the school. In many ways schools had and still have the transferred power of the parent, and they recognize little law but their...
Perhaps the most enduring of Maloula's legends concerns Holy Cross Day, which the village celebrates on Sept. 14. In the 4th century, the Roman Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, dispatched his mother Helena to the Holy Land to search for the true cross. He also ordered the...
Seibert marked off the trails himself. One of the first and most exacting he called Riva Ridge, after a battle that the 10th Mountain had fought in Italy. Three days before the scheduled opening of Vail in December 1962, two lodges, a restaurant and a couple of stores waited for...
On June 7, 1665, "Much against my Will, I did in Drury-lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us' writ there"-for it was the year of the Great Plague, when between a quarter and...