Word: historicization
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2. A house's historic attrition pattern is taken into account in making initial housing assignments though there is, of course, no guarantee that this will hold up.
In American mythology, Pearl Harbor still represents, even after a half- century, a classic moment of treachery and betrayal. Certainly it was a moment of historic surprise, a moment when the impossible happened, when warfare suddenly spread, for the first and only time in history, to virtually the whole world...
Others had suggested such a strategy but it had always been rejected as too dangerous. Pearl Harbor was too far away, too inaccessible, too well defended. Besides, the overall strategy of striking south toward Malaya and the Dutch East Indies now required all the navy's resources. Yamamoto nonetheless began...
In the privacy of the voting booth, it came down to a balance of terror. After riding out the historic race between neo-Nazi David Duke and rapscallion Edwin Edwards, Louisianians had to choose between Duke's appeal to white hostility and fear of the economic chaos and racial divisions...
The problem, according to Dominguez, is that many of the historic Harvard buildings are not adaptable to cable installation. Drilling is not permitted on the outside of some buildings, he said, and in many cases the conduits required to carry the cable are already full with wiring from the new...