Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India's blood bath subsided in shocked dismay and its legislature legally abolished the untouchability which, in life, Gandhi had abominated above all of India's other woes. Under the purposeful hands of David Ben-Gurion, the new state of Israel was born on Judah's ancient soil. Its young armies whipped the Arabs into defeat, rested, and then at year's end renewed the fight against their enemy...
Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital. "General Fu is not defending Peiping," they told each other, "Peiping is defending General Fu." There was much to support this view. It was a common rumor that the Reds had picked the lovely cultural center for their national capital. A Communist spokesman in Hong Kong said flatly: "No Chinese army will take the responsibility of destroying Peiping...
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...proud, hardy, melancholy farmers of Spain scratched the dry soil last week with ancient tools. The drought was one of the worst in modern times. In Barcelona, the shortage of hydroelectric power kept the textile plants shut down for six days out of seven. The people, inured to poverty for centuries, looked for help from two sources: from God, in the form of rain, and from the U.S., in the form of money, machines, supplies. They were almost wholly unaware of the controversy that raged in the free world over whether Franco's Spain should be helped...
Snows of Yesteryear. Looking at the latest arrivals is often like looking at yesterday's skirts and hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, or remembers the purple passages of Norman ("This is It, kid") Corwin...