Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain James Cook claimed that world for England in 1770. He found it inhospitable and sparsely populated by an aboriginal race, whose first recorded words spoken to the English were "Go away!" Newly arrived whites, after 252 days at sea, found a "land of inversions where it was high summer in January ((and)) trees kept their leaves but shed their bark." The island's first lieutenant governor bitterly concluded, "I do not scruple to pronounce that in the whole world there is not a worse country...
...bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace, but I know this town and I know who the creeps are. Besides, it's not too bad in the summer...
...Hwan dismissed the director general of the national police force and the Minister of Home Affairs. Nonetheless, university students protesting Park's death held a memorial service and campus protest marches, and the opposition seized the new popular issue. Trying to burnish his country's image before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Chun called for the creation of an agency to prevent such "isolated" incidents in the future...
...assembled his crew and began sailing in near secrecy off Hawaii, where wind and water duplicate the Western Australia conditions. Conner had also noted that the Fremantle Doctor, a wind so named because it relieves the almost 100 degrees temperatures onshore, increases in strength as the antipodal summer progresses. So he got his marine architects to deliver a boat that would sail best in a straight line and go fastest in the high winds and rough seas expected during the Cup races' final stages...
...year after Spain won full-fledged membership in the European Community, the country's economic growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and a Seville world's fair that year to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The mood in Spain is distinctly bullish...