Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your caves of Rosenburg Hill story [Jan. 5] brought back many memories, as I was one of the first to be taken into Belgium's ancient quarried hillside honeycomb in 1944. The townspeople of nearby Maastricht had used one small segment of these quarries as an air raid shelter capable of housing 70,000 people easily. The Queen Wilhelmina art collection, including Rembrandt's The Nightwatch, was stored away in them with full cooperation from the Germans, who never realized that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied...
...British officer, after the surrender, kicked him in the backside and told him to go home because he was too young to have fought. De Valera's right-hand man for a quarter of a century, Lemass has managed to steer clear of The Long Fella's ancient political quarrels, concentrate instead on the practical business of government...
Three years ago Mme. Ngo began dipping into ancient files and poring over old laws and codes to draw up what was to become a declaration of independence for women. She wrote drafts in Vietnamese. French and English, sent them to legal experts all over the world for comment. Meanwhile, evoking the magic name of Trung, she rallied the women to the cause, soon began having sleepless nights and nightmares about the situations her bill did not cover, would furiously scribble notes in the night for the next day's revision...
...arms were whatever the world's dealers had to offer-Italian sporting rifles, ancient Mausers, nickel-plated revolvers, Springfields, Garands and carbines. Delivered, they cost an average of $1,000 each. Castro handled each munitions shipment with care and glee before passing it on to new recruits. "Bullets come by vintages, like wine," he explained, "especially Latin American bullets. Mexican '55 is a good year, '52 not so good...
...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...