Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Uniontown Penn. Native's exploits were the high point of an impressive performance from the entire Harvard squad, which proved for the first time all year, that it's a legitimate-contender for the 1984 Ancient Eight title...
Ronald Reagan studied the man in front of him and decided Andrei Gromyko was old, far older in some ways than he looked, older than his 75 years. And more important, Gromyko was talking for a group back in the Kremlin that was even more ancient, and perhaps frozen, in their distrust and loathing...
...melancholy fog shrouded the moors the night Lord Edgar brought his bride to Mandacrest. Portents of dread creaked in every dank corner of the ancient manor. The bride's sepulchral maid remained loyal beyond the grave to the first Lady Hillcrest, whose portrait was known to bleed when a stray bullet punctured the canvas. On nights when a full moon peeked through the clouds, Lord Edgar's Karloffian butler showed a disconcerting tendency to sprout wolfs hair...
Because if Larry Bean and Cecil Cox hadn't combined Saturday for the play of the game--not to mention the season Harvard might very well have lost a last-minute thriller and with it, the upper-hand in the race for the 1984 Ancient Eight title...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III noted in his 1972 study of the arts at Harvard, the notion of a "university" is based on ancient Greek ideals, "in which reason and verbal discourse were far more important than manual skills and creative imagination...