Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lutestring, Zoo, and Lilith) seems a bit uneasy as young Eve clad only in a few leaves, but she is first-rate after that, especially in her denunciatory speech to Adam and Cain, and in Lilith's concluding monologue. Daly (young and elderly Adam, Archbishop, and An Ancient) is also uneasy at first but fine thereafter, particularly...
...permission to tap the Iraqi river Euphrates for drinking water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into the modern, air-conditioned, palace-crammed capital city of Riyadh...
Blood, vengeance and silence is the ancient law of the lawless Mafia through out Sicily and southern Italy. One day last week, a witness in court broke the Mafia's law. For the benefit of seven solemn judges sitting in an old stone courthouse overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, an ignorant peasant of Calabria and a former member of the organization told all that he knew. "I know they have sworn to kill me," he cried, "but I don't care. Justice will punish me for what I have done, and justice will punish them as well...
...ancient Hollywood practice, a star is made not just born. Kim Novak herself was virtually invented, the first topflight star ever made strictly to order, for delivery when needed. When Cohn's underlings found her, she was a small-time model, somewhat overweight and so utterly lacking in acting experience that, as one director put it, "she had never even read the funnies out loud." Today Kim Novak not only holds full sway where Hayworth once ruled supreme, but she has set a record for going far and fast. After only six pictures, she is the nation...
Testifying before the House Banking Committee , last week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. described the problem of controlling the vigorous U.S. economy in terms that even a schoolboy could understand. The Federal Reserve Board, said Martin, is in the position of the ancient Danish King Canute, who demonstrated his human limitations by giving orders to the tides. Yet Martin made it clear that even if the U.S. economy is too strong for the Fed, some attempt must be made to control or at least temper its insatiable appetite for money. Said Martin: The Fed's tight...