Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champ. Magnanimously, Rocky suggested that ancient (42) Archie Moore, his last victim, has the best chance to take over his title. It is as good a guess as any, and considering the source, perhaps the best. The list of heavyweight contenders is a list of palookas. Hurricane Jackson, an ill wind from New York, Bob Baker, a pudge-pot from Pittsburgh, Johnny Holman a clown from Chicago, are the three top contenders, and a good kangaroo ought to be able to outwit any one of them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill...
...story centers around an ancient curse on the Barons of Ruddigore which compels them to commit a crime a day. The curse, together with a triple love story, fickle people always verging upon marriage, and the weird Ruddigores, keeps the action moving...
...ancient and honorable Boston Lacrosse Club, the Crimson slipped under by only two points, 7 to 9, and against powerful champion Hofstra the varsity lost only when it ran out of gas, this game being the first of the spring trip after weeks of rained-out practice...
...gold and scarlet priedieu, a fanfare of trumpets announced the arrival of her husband-to-be. Tense and nervous, the two sat side by side in the cathedral sanctuary, listening in a hush to a brief sermon by the Bishop of Monaco. Then, in the simple ritual of an ancient faith, they vowed lifelong fidelity each to the other. Rainier slipped the wedding ring halfway onto Grace's finger, and, like many a bride before her, Grace came to his aid and with a sure hand slid the ring firmly home...
...gain life-saving knowledge. Outstanding items: ¶ The pituitary gland, long given homage as producer of the "master" hormone ACTH,* is itself the slave of a truly imperial hormone secreted by a part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain, Guillemin and Baylor colleagues have isolated a highly potent fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic hormone," it can be injected to give the same results...