Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the elevated railway was extended to Harlem in 1880, land values boomed. It was obvious, said the Harlem Monthly Magazine in 1893, that "the center of fashion, wealth, culture and intelligence must, in the near future, be found in the ancient and honorable village of Harlem...
...thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America.In other words, Shriners...
...certain number of Catholic bishops, chiefly auxiliaries, papal diplomats and Curia officials, preside over ancient dioceses that no longer exist as active churchly subdivisions. Such bishoprics are mostly in Moslem areas in northern Africa and the Middle East...
There, with white-faced Herefords lying unconcernedly beside the driveway and peacocks strutting among the ancient liveoak trees, Johnson held a lawn-chair news conference. This time he had a few things to say. For the third time since the original budget message of January 1963, Johnson cut his estimate of deficit spending for fiscal 1964-this time by $500 million-to a total $8.3 billion...
...still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work out a "Tunisian formula" with Moslem-run Sudan, which this year abruptly exiled all of the country's Catholic and Protestant missionaries...