Word: renewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that came into the picture of America in the world and those aspects of American civilization and behavior that have left a deep impact on world civilization. And at this moment in her history, when America feels the need to reassess her motives and aims and the urge to renew her institutions and policies, a knowledge of what she has meant for the world in the past will help her in determining what her attitudes and broader aims on the world scene should be in the future. Not all of what she has accomplished in the later period...
...challenge to authority that is now upon us can strengthen and renew institutions as much as it can weaken them. And it can be fun. There is always room, as George Orwell wrote, 'for one more custard...
Terrill, for one, sees a growth of public opinion in China that may not be amenable to Mao's legacy. "Among a majority there's a great deal of consumerism. Among a minority there's idealism and an attempt to renew Chinese socialism. Consumeristic instincts go against the efforts of the radicals to whip up revolution." While he grants that the Chinese leadership could take either direction in the long run, like other Harvard China-watchers, he insists it would be useless to try to gauge policy shifts so early...
...terrace. With positive identification of the charred body difficult, some townspeople began wondering whether Peiper might have in fact staged the shooting and fire to cover his own getaway. Mayor Rigoulot, for his part, let it be known that, even before the blaze, he had decided not to renew the German's residence permit next year...
...what appears to be a centrifugal-force machine. Soon the participant starts soaring toward the top of the dome, where a glowing white stone incinerates him in mid-flight Bodies explode in the air like percussion caps, making quick, clean flashes The more youthful spectators clap and yell "Renew! Renew...