Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Jerusalem white cloth banners covered with sprawling Arabic letters hung over every street, flapping incongruously against ancient masonry. From improvised platforms in the coffeehouses of Amman and a dozen other towns, impassioned speakers harangued attentive crowds...
...favor with his nation's snootier aristocrats, who generally held a low opinion of him, offered to display the armorial bearings of anyone able to provide proof of an ancestor who had fought in the Crusades. Within a year Versailles was overflowing with applicants, all of whom bore ancient documents to attest their claims...
...Last week, in the silent, august chamber of L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced his findings: Henri Courtois, a onetime notary's clerk and one of the shadiest characters of the 19th century, had done a land-office business in the faking of ancient documents,*exacting a fee of 40,000 gold francs ($10,000) apiece for his services. All 250 of the documents which he had produced for submission to King Louis Philippe were forgeries...
Braucher noted that the Democratic concept of a President violates an ancient principle, and a modern one. "Present day leaders of the armed services, corporations, and government have come to realize that the days of one-man rule are over...
...even worse business to make a dollar and lose a friend. Perhaps no one will argue the point, but every American is entitled to resent the way the point is made. Scriptwriter Robert Ardrey, who worked from the novel by Howard Swiggett, unfortunately felt obliged to revive an ancient canard that has been a dead duck for a long time. Americans, the script suggests, are rich but vulgar; Europeans are poor but cultured...