Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would be the best guarantee that they would not fall under the influence...
...account for this progressive collapse of ancient cultures? Muggeridge sees one cogent reason: "Practically everyone wants to live as Americans live. It must be the first time in the history of the world that human desires have been so standardized. Driving at night through little American towns, I used to notice it. Neon signs starkly proclaimed contemporary man's basic requirements-food, drugs, beauty, gas. These are the pivots of felicity in the mid-20th century. Everywhere in the world is getting to look like everywhere else, and everyone is getting to look and be like Americans...
Suspended from his job, Zind went on trial last week, accused under ancient statutes prohibiting public approval of crimes or slandering the memory of the dead. In the dock Zind denied nothing, and arrogantly announced that if Germany did not want him, a teaching job awaited him in Egypt. After three days of testimony and six hours of deliberation, the three judges and two lay jurors brought in their verdict: guilty; one year in jail. "Zind's words rip open the old, barely healed wounds of the German people," declared Presiding Judge Johannes Eckert. "What thousands have tried...
...Mammon puts his best foot forward this week at the Brussels World Fair, he will find his ancient competition on hand-the Roman Catholics in a mammoth pavilion called Civitas Dei (The City of God), and the Protestants in a modest prefab, one-eleventh the size, with no name...
When Emperor Nero received a shipment of mountain snow for his royal ice cream in a state of slush, he executed the general in charge. When Baltimore Milkman Jacob Fussell first began mass-producing the ancient delicacy in 1851, he started a U.S. industry that today leads all the world. But though Americans down about 3 billion quarts of ice cream annually, the U.S. Government-unlike Nero-has never had any control over the quality of the industry's product. Last week the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a code to regulate everything from quality "French...