Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great season," said Harvard Coach Bob Scalise, whose team snagged second place in the Ivy League after finishing last a year ago with a 0-6 Ancient Eight mark. "We got some great senior leadership this year which isn't going to be easy to replace. These kids turned our program around. We gained respect from the league...
...load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke, the kid who tidies after the elephants, receives. It may be the arts, but at Carson & Barnes it means disposing of twelve fragrant cubic yards a day. James K. Judkins, general manager of the circus, started this...
Dartmouth now holds that honor, as the Big Green slipped past the Crimson, 10-9, before 700 spectators at Chase Field in Hanover, N.H., Wednesday to capture the Ancient Eight crown for the first time in the seven-year history of the league...
...homecoming could not have got off to a more auspicious start. Returning to Pakistan after two years of self-imposed exile in London, the daughter of the country's last elected Prime Minister arrived in ancient Lahore, the home of the Punjabis, who dominate the military and bureaucratic elite that rules Pakistan. The political risk paid handsome dividends. Benazir Bhutto, 32, was greeted by hundreds of thousands of frenzied supporters, who enveloped her motorcade and staged a daylong demonstration that was the largest display in memory of discontent with the military government of President Mohammed...
...Middle East, as in the author's own Ireland, mixing God and politics has been a formula for intractability. O'Brien carefully works his way to this point, noting that rhetoric does not always reflect reality. For example, the Jewish state derives its reason for being from ancient texts that have little relationship to liberal theories about the consent of the governed. Yet Israel is a vigorous democracy. By contrast, the 1968 Palestinian National Covenant calls for the establishment of a secular democracy even though, as O'Brien notes, "the rulers of the region, in practice, assume and enforce...