Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are asymmetries in Keegan's battle plan. Though Hitler was indeed the German supreme commander in World War II, he is the only civilian political leader in this quartet. He is also the only loser. If we study Hitler, why not Napoleon instead of Wellington? Conversely, the modern analogue to Wellington is not Hitler but Dwight Eisenhower. But Keegan is following a somewhat unorthodox method, not deriving a theory from his examples but choosing his examples to illustrate a thesis...
...Morgan in 1981. Their two-year-old daughter is also named Hallee Morgan. When asked why the little girl does not have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...
...startling conclusion after analyzing tiny air bubbles trapped in bits of amber, the aged and solidified resin of coniferous trees. They placed the amber inside a vacuum chamber, then cracked it to let the ancient air escape. They found that it was 32% oxygen, compared with 21% in the modern atmosphere...
During the first days in the Vatican's modern, tiered synod hall, the status of women emerged as a pressing topic. It was addressed in speeches by no fewer than 32 participants, much to the delight of the U.S. delegation, which had made the issue a priority. Not everyone was so pleased. When Ireland's Tomas Cardinal O Fiaich stated that the women's issue is "no longer an American aberration," another bishop was heard to grumble, "Yeah, it's now a worldwide aberration...
Many books in the collection "are hardly ever used, because we don't have an area studies center," said Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali Asani, who teaches modern Indian languages. Asani cited his current research on a collection of 150 manuscripts he stumbled upon--still uncatalogued...