Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither side would budge. One Red battalion was encamped in a small valley called Xieng Ngeun, twelve miles from the ancient capital city of Luang Prabang, and the only exit from the valley was guarded by two Royal Laotian battalions and a detachment of paratroopers. The other was stationed on the wide Plaine des Jarres in north Laos, surrounded by four heavily armed loyal battalions. The Royal Laos handed ultimatums to the Reds, giving them the choice of surrendering their arms and being integrated, or being wiped out; food supplies were cut off. At Xieng Ngeun, his hungry...
...tribal backwardness to their present positions in government in the Eastern Region and in education. A British-educated barrister. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region, runs the most efficient government of all. But the crucial fact remains that the Sardauna in the north rules a land of ancient walled cities and feudal emirs that is more than three times the size of the other two regions put together and in the next federal Parliament will hold 174 out of 320 seats...
THERE is no substitute for actuality, yet art books can JL do wonders in bringing home to space-bound men impossibly far realms of art. This spring, with the publication of Japan: Ancient Buddhist Paintings, the New York Graphic Society offered U.S. readers 32 color reproductions of masterpieces of Japanese religious art that are rolled up in scrolls, tucked away in mountain monasteries or otherwise unavailable to all but the most determined travelers. Like all too many art books, Japan is expensive ($18), and its text contributes little or nothing to the pictures...
...first degree conferred went to the oldest University in the western world, the University of Bologna, founded in 1000. In the words of Dr. Rene J. Dubos, "The historical role of Bologna is not limited to having shaped our institutions of higher learning. This most ancient of all universities has also contributed richly and continuously to the history of thought and knowledge...
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...