Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warmth of Harry Truman's welcome was any indication, slim, soft-spoken young (30) Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi also seemed in a good way of getting the economic aid he was frankly looking for, to help finance Iran's ambitious seven-year plan for modernizing the ancient land of the Persians (TIME...
...reflection of their faith is warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...
Wire & Rope. One day last August, the party set out for Kashgar, an ancient trading post near the Soviet border. There were 16 travelers, including 50-year-old Paxton and his wife Vincoe, an ex-Army nurse; Vice Consul Robert Dreeson; two White Russian chauffeurs and their wives & children; a Turki interpreter and his sister; his wife and four-month-old baby...
Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...