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April 2006Looking Back: 1986April 1986 was a deadly month. A bomb exploded on a TWA flight from Rome to Athens, killing four people. U.S. planes bombed Libya. And the worst nuclear accident ever occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Our look back at that frightening time includes 62 terms that made their first print appearance that year. The fallout from the Chernobyl accident included death, poisoning, and, by some accounts, a lessening of Soviet secrecy. So it's perhaps not surprising that the list for that year includes the Russian words glasnost and perestroika. In addition, the list includes a number of words that vividly evoke the world of twenty years ago.
For a complete list of the 62 terms that made their print debut in 1986, select the Collegiate Dictionary, click on Advanced Search, type 1986 in the Date field, and hit Search. |