Word: historicization
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Israel's defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Tel that Hussein's decision created a "historic opportunity" for Middle East peace. Rabin called on the 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories to jettison the PLO.
Four years before Bakker began building his network, Robert H. Schuller decided to start telecasts from California's first drive-in church, which he had founded in Garden Grove. His optimistic Christianity won a ready audience, and the church boomed. Emboldened by a nationwide fund base, Schuller opened the Crystal...
Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and...
Within minutes, army troops from a nearby barracks descended on the crowd. The soldiers fired rifles into the air, rained down blows with hardwood clubs, and barged into the cathedral in search of the instigators. As word of the brutal military response spread, thousands of demonstrators roamed through the historic...
It was increasingly clear that a watershed of possibly historic dimensions had arrived for the beleaguered Third World petropowers. In the '70s, when oil-price hikes seemed limitless, eager representatives from the industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell...