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Example sentences for: annus

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By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had solidified: a "silent majority" who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a "new class" of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.
In Rome, La Repubblica said this was an "annus horribilis " for Coca-Cola, that "the sun is setting on the empire of Atlanta," and that "the gods have turned against the fizzy drink."
Newsweek publishes obits for the victims of this annus horribilis . Deng Xiaoping and Willem de Kooning get a paragraph each; Di gets a few pages.
Thanks to the northward migration of Pacific marlin, California sport fishermen will have an annus mirabilis . And as for the surfing, it will be awesome.