Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I was young," Moore muses, as if 33 were ancient, "I wondered why I had single coverages against me, as great as I was. Maybe it had something to do with those three guys over on the other side of the field covering Paul Warfield." Left out of the end zone for six straight games, Duper gave thought to moping until Moore assured him, "When the guy on the other side is open, it's because you are dictating the coverages. When he starts dictating them, it'll come back to you." All three gathered touchdown passes against...
...Keck telescope, as it will be called, is the first of a new generation of extra-large telescopes designed to overcome construction problems that have dogged sky gazers since before the Hale was dedicated in 1948. Photons (massless particles that transmit light) from an ancient galaxy may travel billions of light years through space before they speed down a telescope tube. But unless enough of them are collected, astronomers will not be able to see the galaxy's image. Gathering sufficient photons to register an image is accomplished by either taking long-exposure photographs or using a larger mirror system...
McLaughlin is also closing in on a .500 Ivy record. Currently 50-52 in Ancient Eight action, the Harvard coach should hit the .500 level when Yale and Brown visit town in early February...
...ancient calendar of Egypt's Coptic Church, this is the Christmas season--and President Hosni Mubarak, a Muslim, had a present last week for his Christian community. He released Pope Shenouda III, 61, from a three-year- long house arrest and allowed him to resume his duties as spiritual leader of the Copts, the largest Christian group (6 million) in any Arab nation...
Perhaps the central ailment of the age is a more personal matter, one that relates to the general advancement of knowledge, but that takes its effect silently in individuals. Jacques Ellul criticized the modern idea of work as compared with the ancient because, he said, work with machines puts people at a distance from their labors and thus evokes a feeling of absence instead of presence. Arnold, too, focused on the absence of things. It is a peculiarly desolating experience to look upon something new that one despises or has no feeling for and to recall with pleasure whatever...