Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since TIME began publishing full-color reproductions each week in the Art section, the editors have been struck time and again by the strength and vitality of native U.S. art. Along with the foreign painting, sculpture and architecture, from the ancient Egyptians and Etruscans to the latest sculpture from Paris, TIME has recorded the history and day-to-day ferment of American paintings, from the untutored journeyman portraitists of colonial days to the explosive abstract expressionists. Among the almost 700 full-color reproductions printed since 1951, some 200 were of American paintings, the most extensive color survey...
...Recognizing that the ancient feud between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste was a potential source of war and was distracting Italy from other serious problems, she 'helped get U.S. backing for a brass-tacks London negotiating conference, meanwhile worked hard in Rome to help iron out details of a Trieste settlement that still works ("No one will ever know," wrote Milan's major daily Corriere della Sera, at the time of the Trieste settlement, "how much Italy owes to this fragile blonde...
...pilgrims hoping to see the holy mountain while Israel still held the peninsula (Jewish travelers had been discouraged by the Egyptians). "It seems as if all the Jews in the world want to go to Mount Sinai," said Dr. Cahane. But nobody knows where Sinai is. Modern archaeologists and ancient traditions recognize four main possibilities...
...first year, the Kennel Club "recognized" only two of Wright's carefully bred puppies. Later generations, carefully chaperoned, have approached the standard more closely. Now there are 22 recognized Xolos, and more on the way. Rules have been set up to keep unrecognized Xolos, even though of ancient Aztec ancestry, from sullying the breed. Buyers of the real McCoy must sign an agreement to destroy all nonstandard pups. No owner may breed his Xolo without consulting Wright's committee...
...presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could be even bloodier. Churchill argues that ancient English liberties reposed in the monarch, the church and Parliament-but that Parliament, when it overthrew the others, could be a worse tyrant than either...