Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field training headquarters of the 3rd British Infantry Division. Eden, who won the Military Cross for gallantry in World War I, clambered in and out of armored vehicles, crawled into underground field defenses built to withstand the blast and radiation of atomic bombs dropped 500 yards away. "Pretty ancient aren't they, sir?" said a youthful sergeant when the Prime Minister inspected his living quarters. "They're awful," said Eden. "Accommodations must be improved...
Rival Among Ruins. Chief opposition comes from the Democratic Party, whose symbol is a trumpeting elephant, and whose nominal chief is Sihanouk's cousin, His Highness Prince Phorissara. Deep in the jungle, however, somewhere near the ruins of ancient Angkor Wat, hides the Democrats' moving spirit, an old enemy of the ex-King. Son Ngoc Thanh was Japan's puppet Premier of Cambodia in World War II, when ex-King Sihanouk was only in his early twenties. Since then, besides being pro-Japanese, Thanh has been pro-French, anti-French, pro-American, anti-American, pro-King...
When Nashua, the favorite, lost the Kentucky Derby to Swaps last May, Nashua's ancient (81) trainer. Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons. admitted that he and Jockey Eddie Arcaro had used the wrong tactics: "We held back. By the time we tried to catch Swaps, it was too late." Last week, before the $100,000 winner-take-all match race at Chicago's Washington Park, most of the 35,000 spectators figured that Nashua could not catch Swaps this time either. Favored at 3-10, Swaps, unbeaten this year, had broken or tied three track records since the Derby...
...modern theatergoers. One evening last week, as dusk settled over Attica's brown hills, the moon over the amphitheater competed with the electric lights. An audience filled the 3,000 seats for a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo, a rarely staged opera with an ancient Greek background...
Once upon a time, as chief advisers to king and church, the intellectuals shared "the ancient power and prestige of the lawgivers who supported them," Molnar says. But once liberated by the political and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, the masses not only turned upon their former rulers, they also rejected those who had been associated with them. Thus the intellectuals "have become a separate, independent class, unattached to any center of socio-political authority, which itself is constantly changing. The society that intellectuals helped to emancipate has become self-assured, self-sufficient, with values...