Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus, which boasts that it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, and is as notable for its strikingly modern apartments as its ancient bazaars and narrow alleys...
...water system-still functioning-and converted the Byzantine Church of St. John the Baptist into one of Islam's great shrines, the Ommiad Mosque, still standing in gilded glory. For centuries, while Europe was in its dark ages, the Arabs were the light of civilization, preserving the ancient heritage of scholarship, devising Arabic numbers and making great strides in mathematics and science...
...shrewd combination of Dr. Christian. David Harum and Tugboat Annie, Ma is "the conscience of her community" and trusts folks "till that trust is violated." Soap operaddicts feel that her show is a pleasant extension of the ancient art of storytelling, and offers helpful hints to daily living. Her detractors find it tired bilge, intensifying human frustration in its calculated attempts to bring temporary relief by dredging emotional sewers...
...into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back to their ancient way of life. They stuck to it until a few years ago, when British Author Vincent (The Wise Man from the West) Cronin, who visited the Persian interior in hope of taking part in a spring migration of one tribe, found that its nomadic way had finally petered put. The Last Migration...
...horrified by his tribe's backwardness, illiteracy and impractical preoccupation with poetry; civilization's missionaries depart, leaving behind two artificially inseminated ewes and predicting bigger and better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like a Chinese lacquer cabinet...