Word: ancient
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Stuart, the youngest person ever to receive a prestigious MacArthur grant, began studying the ancient scripts on frequent trips to Mexico and Guatemala with his family since he was three years...
...Beirut. Thousands fled before the advancing Muslim militia into the Israeli occupation zone. Reported TIME Correspondent David Halevy: "They rolled up to the Awali River in cars and trucks of every age and description. The vehicles were crammed with children, mothers and grandmothers and piled high with blankets, mattresses, ancient refrigerators, rusty sewing machines and, here and there, a new color TV or even a Persian carpet. On a single day last week some 4,000 to 6,000 refugees crossed the Awali, rumbling over a bridge and through an Israeli checkpoint at the rate of three cars or trucks...
WHILE THE EXPLICITLY racist terms of this ancient Georgia law may seem shocking, recent statistical studies on the administration of the death penalty in certain southern states now seem to indicate that our present system of capital punishment bears, in some senses, a remarkable resemblance to the death penalties of the old South...
...much more difficult to dispose of than all those ash-laden trucks. Coal ash is essentially inert and harmless. Used nuclear fuel rods, which are 12 ft. long and ½ in. in diameter and are fastened together in bundles reminiscent of the fasces carried by magisterial aides of ancient Rome, remain very dangerous. Contaminated by such fission products as strontium 90, cesium 137 and plutonium 239, they are not only physically hot (at several hundred degrees), but will remain radioactive for thousands of years...
...scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...