Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that ancient history didn't bother the voters, who overwhelmingly elected Tito to the National Assembly last month. Running with him as an alter nate Deputy was one Alfredo Jimènez, 33, an old crony who campaigned energetically for both Tito and Arnulfo. In return, he fully expected to be chosen from the elected alternates to sit in for Tito whenever he is away. Since that is often, Jimènez was counting on earning a near full-scale $12,000 annually. But Tito chose someone else as his alternate, and Jimenez was left holding...
...such a statute was enacted to keep workers from roaming about to take higher paying jobs and to require all able-bodied men to work. The notion that everyone should work appealed to the moralistic settlers of Colonial America who so preserved the duty-to-work concept that the ancient attitude still persists-anyone who is drifting about and refuses to work must be a criminal and should be locked...
...there is no molecular movement, and the speed of light, which was written into Einstein's age-shaking equation, E = mc2. Constant too is the decay of radioactive materials at rates that cannot be altered by heat, cold, pressure, magnetism, or any other influence.*Such reliability means that ancient tombs can be dated by the decay of carbon 14; the age of the earth's most ancient rocks may be measured by decaying uranium...
...Edith Green, Oregon Congresswoman -Pub. Affairs D. The right to change her mind is a right that every man has long granted to every woman. Her right to change the minds of men is equally ancient but less frequently acknowledged...
...career in the church. But in the course of a visit to Nicomedia, he came under the influence of apostate theoreticians secretly working toward a return to the old faith-or rather, to an idealized amalgam of paganism and philosophy that they took for the faith of the ancient world. Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul...