Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public appearances arouse excitement bordering on hysteria, evoke near tearful tributes to his "affectionate and kindly gaze.'' Nor are foreigners immune to his spell: Brazilian Sculptor Maria Martins recalls him as "a glowing image-a genius in terms of 20th century politics and a sage out of ancient China...
Since integration, one real problem of Washington schools has been the ancient one of low-income U.S. Negroes. The total school population has risen to 73% Negro, up 13% since 1954. This may refleet a white flight to the suburbs. The problems still remain-to be confronted for the first time by Washington's white teachers. Poverty among the families of Negroes at Jefferson Junior High is so severe that Principal Hugh Smith is sometimes asked to help them raise rent money. His unwed-mother problem is "tremendous." Says he: "There are years of work ahead...
According to native Maori legend, an ancient chief named Ngatoro-i-rangi got caught in a mountain blizzard near Waira-kei and had the presence of mind to call for divine help. Down from the Maoris' ancestral (and warmer) homeland, Ha-waiki, came the fire goddess. Wherever she stepped, a volcano bloomed. She warmed Ngatoro-i-rangi so bounteously that the whole region where the blizzard was blowing is still boiling over...
...cinnamon-brown clouds that brushed like a dark breath over the cheek of the softening mocha and amethyst horizon. The east slipped to peace amid a resentment of raddled colors, the sun dipped beneath the great lip of the earth's rim and the landscape dark as an ancient photograph, warm and old as the closed volume of its million passion years, sublimated into the uncomprehending and excellent excrescence of the pale poppy-seed dimension, timeless, in the hand of whatever great essence contains the world in the forests of his brows...
...Calendar. Last week the village of Kukang was only a memory. Nothing was left of it except the public well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...