Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constitutionals have been a part of Chagall's routine all his life. The country pleases him more than the city; and since 1950, he has lived in rustic Vence, an ancient town of Roman origins perched in the Maritime Alps. Each day, he sorties from the garden of his white-walled studio house, Les Collines (The Hills), past the orange trees whose fruits lie rotting on the ground, along lines of spear-like cypresses and sun-baked terraces exploding with olive trees, down to Avenue Henri Matisse, then cuts off to rocky, flower-lined paths unknown to tourists. After...
...ancient Greeks developed democracy, but they were skeptical about it. "A charming form of government, full of variety and disorder," sniffed Plato. Present-day Greeks found his teaching true last week, as Athens for the second week baked in a hot sun and rocked with riots. One politician un easily recalled that 17 of Greece's 20 revolutions since 1821 have happened in the searing days of summer...
That hallowed tribal custom, the bride price, is coming under fire. Africa's young bachelors, caught between higher education and even higher inflation, are growing increasingly unhappy at the ancient laws that force the prospective groom to buy his bride from her parents. In Kenya, the dowry is often the equivalent of five years of the groom's expectable income, usually payable in postmarital installments of livestock, bicycles and money. By the time the bartering is over and the wedding rolls around, only his in-laws have much cause for celebration: rather than losing a daughter, they...
When the indictment was handed down last year, steelmen were openly resentful, and Bethlehem went so far as to accuse the U.S. trustbusters of digging up "ancient history" to "harass" the industry. By last week tempers had cooled, and steelmen seemed relieved. Wheeling, National and Jones & Laughlin all called their no-contest pleas "appropriate" under the circumstances. Bethlehem said it was "satisfied" that the disposition of the case "is in the best interests of the company and its stockholders...
...Germany is not but Walter Tiemann, trade and member of the parliament, defended pointed to the ancient tradition local government in the Holy Empire preceding the create federal states after World . The special competences of general states, such as building education should hampered with because of a for unity and said...