Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, called his followers together over a secret dinner of lasagna. roast chicken and Chianti in a small restaurant in the Italian seaside town of Rimini. Dinner over, Biggi and his lieutenants slipped furtively back into San Marino, called their followers together and passed out a formidable armory of ancient muskets, hunting rifles and outmoded carbines. Then they holed up in an abandoned iron foundry only 50 yards from the Italian border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle, wrote out a proclamation declaring themselves San Marino's legal government. "This...
Reischauer further explained that the Yen-Ching has been cramped for space at Boylston, and that its present set-up does not include any air-conditioning equipment needed to maintain a humidity control on ancient volumes...
...years for slaves working with primitive bronze tools) was the rubble hauled out of the well. Among the finds: pottery painted in red and yellow with designs of birds, which may force revision of the theory held by many archaeologists that because of Moses' injunction against idolatry ancient Jews shunned imagery. Also unearthed: pottery wine jars (the first found in 67 years of Palestine archaeology), which offer a clue to Palestine's early economy and confirm that the men of Gibeon were not only "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but also drinkers of wine. Since...
...episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages he is seldom desperate. The land holds him rooted, God shines down upon him like the sun, and the ancient mold of village life supports him as a pot supports a plant. Nevertheless, he lives in a physical misery that is proper subject for the indignation of all feeling men, and with this picture Producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce (Torero!) has added a significant page to the cinematic literature of protest...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...