Word: torical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals. "The ultimate token of approval," he said with rueful satisfaction, "is that the Democrats and Republicans have stolen my thunder." Son of a Presbyterian minister, valedictorian of Princeton's class of 1905, six times Socialist candidate for President of the U.S., Norman Mattoon Thomas made an his toric mark. He died in his sleep last week in a Long Island nursing home...
...slender, gilded spires of Bangkok's temples, it wheeled south for a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur, was subsequently scheduled to head northeast for Seoul, the last Asian capital on the President's itinerary. Behind lay the summit conference in Manila and Johnson's his toric visit to South Viet Nam, the first trip ever made by a U.S. President to a foreign battlefield save for Franklin Roosevelt's call at Casablanca...
...Copacabana Palace Hotel, Costa e Silva peered from behind his green-tinted sunglasses while 450 captains of industry pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government. "An unforgettable night," proclaimed the president of the National Confederation of Industries. "A his toric moment," added the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture. "The moral attributes of Your Excellency, Senhor Marshal," said the president of the National Confederation of Industrial Workers, "make of Your Excellency the unquestioned interpreter of the aspirations of the workers, who jubilantly exalt the irreversible resolution of Your Excellency...
What sets Levron's work apart is that he approaches Pompadour not merely as an apologist and admirer but as an archivist-he is curator of all the his toric papers at Versailles. Delving into little-known notebooks and letters, he supports his assessments of her character with elaborate documentation of her daily housekeeping and the worthy causes she supported...
Twenty-one candles were placed by the bier; 16 guards kept watch around the clock. That night the Pope lay alone, except for guards, almost on the spot from which he had addressed his his toric Vatican Council II. In the next two days, more than 1,000,000 people shuffled by the body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica...