Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is another wrinkle in these climatological complications. For about two decades ending in the early 1970s, the earth was in what seemed to be a cooling phase. Some climatologists suggested that the chill marked the beginning of a "little ice age," like the one that persisted in Europe from...
Ely, Minn. (pop. 5,000), just outside the wilderness area, is normally a quiet, friendly town. But lately residents have been in a surly mood. SIERRA CLUB KISS MY AXE and NO SKIDOO NO CANOE, proclaim bumper stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters...
On the first ballot the votes were hopelessly dispersed among a broad scattering of realistic as well as throwaway names. By the second, taken right the lines began to grow clear. No non-Italian figured prominently on the tally sheet that each Cardinal marked as the names were called out...
Today the city government is still there, housed in an imposing modern edifice. So are the markets, in their original buildings-but only after a lengthy, civic tug of war and some shrewd, imaginative thinking about the inner city of Boston. Last week's opening of the North Market...
All Curial appointments cease when a Pope dies, but some work sputters on. The Congregation for Saints' Causes continued to investigate the sanctity of candidates last week, while Villot's former secretariat acknowledged the mountains of condolence messages. The usual Vatican postage stamps marked sede vacante (vacant see...