Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit is to live up to its manifest destiny by the second millennium, it will need massive urban redevelopment: roads, ports, airports, research facilities and shopping centers must be strategically located and built in the next 33 years. How much, where and when? His I.D.E.A.s, Doxiadis promises Detroit, will be ready in two years...
...Chinese invented explosives in the 9th century A.D., and the rocket 200 years later. Last week, a millennium after those breakthroughs, China announced it had brought both weapons together for the first time. Over the wind-whipped desert of Takla Makan, Peking claimed, a Chinese Communist A-bomb was carried aloft by a Chinese Communist missile and exploded some 500 miles away...
...remained at Caltech until 1955. Allowed at last to leave, he returned to the Chinese mainland and went right to work. Soon he was a full-fledged member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was posing for pictures at Mao's side. After a millennium of waiting, the Chinese "fire arrow" clearly had reached maturity...
Under the Omayyad caliphs, Moorish Spain became the strongest, richest nation in Europe. Shortly after the first millennium, the caliphate splintered into tiny Moorish principalities. In the era typified by El Cid, the soldier of fortune who served both Moslems and Christians, chivalry became a warring way of life for Christians. Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors. Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods...
...draining its way through the earth feeds a lake with nitrate and phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these willowy green growths are the stuff that giant, billowing swamps are later made of. After a few centuries or a millennium, a meadow sits where a lake once sparkled. In his wanton, willful way, man can speed up this process to mere decades...