Word: newspaperish
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...most striking aspects of Daniel's list is that five of his ten choices deal more or less with World War II, which is understandable enough for a man who spent much of his professional life covering that cataclysm and its consequences. Yet there is something relentlessly newspaperish about the implication that the great events of history mostly involve war and politics. World War II inflicted an awful carnage -- at least 35 million dead -- but far more people than that have been kept alive by the invention of penicillin and other antibiotics, not to mention the pesticides that eradicated many...
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