Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where did Squillante's power lie? Perched on the witness chair, the tiny, bespectacled racketeer politely pulled the Fifth Amendment to more than 100 questions, but the committee's evidence appeared to be solid enough. As a member of the so-called Mafia (the ancient Sicilian vendetta society that some authorities claim is running U.S. racketeering), Squillante always managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged...
...name of a joint group must include the words "Harvard-Radcliffe" except in the case of organizations whose titles have "a far-reaching and ancient tradition...
...during a period of serious illness as a student did Thielicke discover that theology was something more than an intellectual game. After recovering, says he, "I now knew what faith was." In 1940 he was ordained a minister in the Evangelical Church, shortly thereafter became a pastor in the ancient town of Ravensburg. Thielicke's anti-Nazi sermons earned him a stern prohibition against speaking in public. He wrote two books and smuggled them out to Switzerland, where they were published anonymously. Karl Goerdeler, a leader of the abortive July 20 plot against Hitler, engaged him to write part...
...scrawny cowpoke draped over the bars of the end stall looked like anything but a big money man. His ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...world of Jay and Mary Follet, and of their two small children, Rufus and Catherine. A few streets away live uncles and cousins and grandparents. A few miles out in the country is another solid cluster of relatives, and up in the timeless hills survive even more ancient progenitors. Safe, warm, sweet almost to the point of cloying, this is a world nourished on love, protected by kindness, impervious to small failures or vaulting ambition. It is shattered by the sudden, meaningless death of Jay Follet in an auto accident...