Word: untouchedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Viet Nam War was not the bloodiest in U.S. history?despite nearly 50,000 dead by enemy action plus another 300,000 wounded. Americans suffered more casualties in the Civil War and the two World Wars. Physically speaking, most Americans were untouched by the war. There were no airraid...
Johnson insists that the offshore money pouring into the Caymans is legitimate investment capital. Yet local authorities are hardly equipped to deal with the abuses-including crime-that inevitably follow fast and loose cash. There is not even an economist in the Georgetown government. "We have written away to the...
The modern headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was unusually subdued for a victory celebration. The banzais were perfunctory and beer toasts stood untouched. Even the usually ebullient party leader, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, looked less than exuberant as he painted in the missing eye on a huge...
In Northern Ireland, the referendum attracted relatively little interest. To most Ulster Protestants, repealing Article 44 was a minor matter that left untouched the church's interest in preserving the tough laws on divorce, contraception and censorship of books and movies. Northerners were also preoccupied with another burst of...
BEFORE man's first lunar landing, most scientists thought of the moon as a Rosetta stone: an untouched repository of precious clues that would help reveal its origin and history, to say nothing of providing new insights about the evolution of the earth and other planets. Now, after five...