Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They sometimes suggested that perhaps his ancient support for local conservatives was based on the fact that Johnson was a pragmatic politician with a basically conservative constituency; now that the entire nation was his electorate Johnson could pursue his liberal views more freely. And a number of them believed that the Presidency had washed away the clinging conservatives and made him clean...
...shun any supposition that they should exercise religious control over it. With such impressive auspices, New College persuaded Historian Arnold Toynbee to be visiting professor this winter. He had doubts about the heat, but Baughman astutely pointed out the precedents for intellectual achievement in warm climates: the ancient Greeks and Aztecs...
While Cyprus threatens to pit NATO partners Greece and Turkey in open war, those ancient European antagonists, Russia and Turkey, have agreed to build a joint hydroelectric complex on the Arpa-Cayi river, long their barbed and bristling common border. Hardly a week goes by without new and major infusions of capital from Western Europe into the East, as Europe's trade, to U.S. dismay, increasingly ignores the red flags (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...with prudent change. He announced that for the first time in church history a select few nuns and laywomen would attend the council as auditors. And to open the third session, he planned to celebrate a pontifical Mass together with 24 bishops from around the world. Concelebration is an ancient practice restored to the Roman rite by the second session's far-reaching liturgical constitution; it is also a not-so-subtle hint of his support for the progressive idea of collegiality-the theory that the bishops share ruling power over the church with the Pope...
...kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council of Ephesus awarded self-government to the church in Cyprus...