Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War I, the Ottoman Empire had been dismembered and large portions of it brought under the domination of the colonizing nations of Christian Europe. European rule demonstrated how important it was for Islam to exercise temporal as well as spiritual power. At its nadir, in all the Arab world, only Yemen and Saudi Arabia, poor and backward, were nominally independent. Iran, Afghanistan and secularized Turkey, where Kemal Ataturk had disestablished Islam as his country's official religion in an effort to forge a stable and progressive nation, were free. But elsewhere?on the Indian subcontinent, in Southeast Asia...
...attitude toward women's roles. But demographics play a further part. Because of the sharp drop in the U.S. birth rate in the 1960s, the number of 18-year-old males will peak at 2.1 million next year, fall to 2 million in 1983 and hit its projected nadir of 1.7 million in 1988. These projections threaten the military with a shortage of qualified men. The armed services will have to offer increasingly costly incentives to attract educated and motivated volunteers. Otherwise the draft may have to be reinstated, which would be politically difficult, if not impossible...
...late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Borgia family brought the papacy to its nadir. After the death of the notorious Alexander VI in 1503, Cardinal Sforza succeeded in frustrating Borgia ambitions by having decrepit Cardinal Piccolomini elected Pius III. Rapacious Vatican bureaucrats, accustomed to plundering the apartments of every new Pope on the assumption that the Holy Father would need no further worldly goods, so stripped Pius' cell that he even had to buy back the bed in which he died of gout just 25 days later...
...history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD ran the headline in the Post over a column by a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter, Haynes Johnson. Now it was Rosenthal's turn to get testy. "I wrote Johnson that his piece was the 'nadir of journalism for 30 years'-accepting what a judge had to say, never checking anybody before he began to vilify." Rosenthal thinks the whole Jersey judicial establishment is after what one judge called "the imperialistic press." But says he, "if this goes through, every defense lawyer is going...
...victory over Princeton sheds reassuring light on the latter portion of the Harvard hockey season, which has not been bright lately. After losing to Boston College for the second time this season, 11-3, the Crimson plummeted to the nadir of their present campaign versus Northeastern, falling to the Huskies...