Word: epoch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twist and Nehru might turn dictator, sweeping aside the paraphernalia of a slow-moving democracy . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and the inefficient . . . In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar?" Nehru's sister adds her own surprising comment: "Though the above may have been written in a mood of self-confession, much of what he wrote then has been borne...
...Calm & Polite." Looking haggard and erect, Chancellor Adenauer faced not only his Bundestag but a television audience. "Into our hands," said der Alte, "is placed the decision by which to end the epoch of European confusion and wars . . . Let us respond in a way we can justify in the eyes of Germany and the world...
...Sven Gard of Sweden in his presentation speech, said that the discoveries marked a "new epoch" for science around the world...
...have that humble reaction that, too often in Europe, leaves one with the conviction that one was born too late and can never equal them. In America, when one goes to a museum, one's pride remains intact . . . The collections we admire, the civilizations, stay firmly in their epoch ... allowing the present to remain supreme. They activate us, like mechanical hares, in the great race toward the future...
...romantics among the historians not only overestimated the happy state of pre-industrial man, but also the misery of the industrial city. Actually, says Ashton, the industrial epoch brought a substantial increase in wages, and if the workers were jammed together in rickety "jerry-built" houses, it was not the fault of the capitalists. "The typical builder was a man of small means, a bricklayer or a carpenter . . . The jerry-builders were not capitalists but workingmen...