Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Competition is hell." This largest single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...
...people have turned from the Tories, but they have not yet turned to us," said Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell at the Labor Party conference last month. Last week the diagnosis was confirmed in a by-election in the ancient East Anglian market town of Ipswich, held to fill the parliamentary seat left vacant by the death of former Laborite Works Minister Richard Stokes...
...music season was on with the blast of trumpets, the scraping of fiddles, the cries from the voice boxes of a thousand singers. The sounds rose in immense variety from symphony orchestras and chamber-music groups, from hallowed opera houses and bare school auditoriums. The music was modern and ancient, classic and romantic, expertly and miserably played. There was so much of it that the whole U.S. recording industry could not get it down on vinyl and all the hi-fi sets in the U.S. could not play it back...
Skipping lunch, he dashed on to open three kindergartens, 19 elementary schools and a trade school. In outlying Xochimilco, to the accompaniment of ancient church bells pealing across the town's Venice-like canals, he opened a flower market and a general market, chatted with pupils in a new elementary school. At sundown, his caravan headed back to Los Pinos and dinner. Ruiz Cortines was plainly weary but well pleased with the day's work: 41 dedications in nine hours and 25 minutes...
...towns and cities in place of theories, and place enterprise and production above politics. We will show you how to achieve in peace a much fuller independence than it is possible to win on the battlefield or across the negotiating table. Without sacrificing the rich spiritual qualities of your ancient traditions, let us show you how to build a better material life. We will carry forward this historical revolution in the way that people everywhere most long for−the way of better living standards of individual liberty and justice, and of cooperation among nations in the maintenance of peace...