Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miami was selected last year as the home base for TIME's new Caribbean bureau, the only foreign bureau located within the U.S. The decision reflected the city's polyglot ambience and its emergence as a commercial and cultural center for Latin Americans. The members of the Miami staff hardly expected, however, that their home town would become their biggest continuing story this year, and a cover subject. In six weeks of intensive reporting, TIME's correspondents conducted more than 250 interviews, from the streets of the "little Havana" district to the refugee camps. They talked...
Gwynne B. Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature, called Levin a "polyglot," with an unusually broad range of academic interests...
...prospect of Tito's imminent death revived quiescent fears about what might befall Yugoslavia afterward. Would the polyglot Balkan nationalities that Tito had united into a nation resume their old, antagonistic ways and 'tear the country apart? If so, would the Soviet Union jump into the disorder to reassert its hegemony over the maverick Communist state...