Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...
...moist forehead leave. The girl in green, still clutching the script, entered the casting room. The large room was scattered with broken furniture, the floors were bare, the walls empty. The director's welcome echoed against the dirty windows while the producer smiled reassuringly from behind an ancient desk. They chatted for a few moments about the play and the weather--the director, the producer, and the young actress...
...spread across the border to Pakistan. At least 23 Hindus and Moslems were dead, another 500 injured. The riots ripped the delicate fabric of peaceful Hindu-Moslem relations and dealt a cruel blow to Prime Minister Nehru's belief that in nine years of the "secular" state the ancient religious animosities of his people had been "healed and forgotten...
That ended the censure debate. Nkrumah's black supporters threw papers in the air and shouted "Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with...
...hymns of the Qumran sect, now completely translated and accessible to the layman for the first time, give readers an authentic feeling of what the scrolls are like. They also offer a moving insight into an ancient mode and mood of worship as well as haunting echoes of Biblical psalms. Excerpts...