Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare press conferences, debonair Harol Macmillan was under the spell of a vision that gave him eloquence. "I have seen in my lifetime the steady Balkanization and disruption of Europe." he said. "Europe has suffered wars. It has torn itself to pieces twice in my lifetime like the ancient states of Greece. [Now] a great future opens up, a great progressive future. If Western Europe, including the United Kingdom could develop into a free trading area, this would be a source of great strength-a common market of nearly 250 million people...
Some of the world's ancient faiths are having a rebirth-often to the discomfiture of an expanding Christianity. Perhaps the most spectacular renaissance is under way in Hinduism...
...Choice. The dons of Christ Church, most powerful of Oxford's 26 colleges, were not so easily routed, however. Slowly, intrepidly, they sought to marshal the sort of massive force that does not make a fuss but simply thwarts, delays and transforms. The Oxford Preservation Trust, an ancient body dedicated to the maintenance of Oxford's ancient monuments and landmarks, mobilized against the Meadow road. High Street merchants began protesting that diversion of traffic from their doors would bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university...
...diplomacy when he published his third volume of fairy tales, L'Ourse aux Pattons Verts (The Lady Bear with the Little Green Paws), a group of stories about romantic princesses ready for marriage, fish that talk and a lady bear named Clementine, who is dedicated to an ancient Gallic ideal: liberty...
...unspectacular ball. Early last week, still one game behind the Braves, Manager Walter Alston put all his chips on a pitcher who almost hadn't been there: blue-jawed, saturnine Salvatore Anthony Maglie. Cast off by the Giants, picked up by the Cleveland Indians and cast off again, ancient (39) Sal Maglie had been bought by Brooklyn only as possible second-line insurance. On that chilly evening last week, Maglie kept his hairline curve under perfect control, had the Philadelphia hitters swinging loose from their shoes. At the end, he had pitched the first no-hitter of his career...