Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of Italians who once had meat only once a week are now eating meat daily. The evening peace of every stone-walled town is broken by the noise of motor scooters as the local youths tear up and down the ancient streets. Visitors to the Milan fair came away dazzled by the rich fabrics, handsome machinery that Italy can and is producing. Poverty remains a dismal view down many a dark alley-but compared to what it was like before, for many there has been an increase in hope and a diminution of despair...
...state oil revenues, so that the whole nation, not just a few wealthy princes, would benefit. The board set out to recreate in the Valley of the Two Rivers the verdant paradise that existed before the marauding Mongols of Hulagu Khan in 1258 wrecked the ancient irrigation system and dried up the Garden of Eden...
...steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed two great barrages that this year caught the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates and led them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream its contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. Land under cultivation has jumped 40% as 20,000 families (an estimated 150,000 persons) have settled on newly reclaimed Go-acre tracts. The board has provided Iraq with oil refineries, textile plants, sugar...
...opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium, and we will pray...
...from oil companies, who will ask city permission for 30 wells on the 311-acre club. If the city approves, Westla will collect at least 32% royalties; the club will get $50,000 annually for ten years. For those golfers to whom even oil is less important than the ancient game, the club promises that drilling will be done off the fairways by soundproofed derricks, and that hidden pipelines will pump...