Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retirement, this ambition has been frustrated. He saw in the Centennial Year of 1967 a chance to begin a new era in French-English relations. Then General de Gaulle raised the cry "Vive le Quebec libre!" in Montreal, and it was clear once again that the ancient conflict cannot be wished away...
...written 2,400 years ago, Euripedes, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War brought him to offer the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives an ancient tale modern force...
...vaccine and keep diluent solutions refrigerated. Inoculating people who live in towns and villages is relatively easy. Far tougher is trapping the nomads who wander across the map. To intercept them, the epidemiologists plot their seasonal visits to water holes and waylay them there. Timbuktu, the Sahara's ancient crossroads for commerce, is now a prime hunting ground for vaccinators...
Saddened by much of what he found, Glenn showed the audience the sites of the ancient slave trade and pointed out the tall mango trees "grown from seeds spat out by slaves." He winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle...
...that I am involved in, even though it is the second oldest profession known to man, is not one with which the average person is familiar. Palmistry is one of several so-called psychic sciences which deal with man, his personality, and his future. Astrology, for example, is an ancient and widely acknowledged "science" which uses stars and different times of the year to foretell what is in store for the individual. Another common form of fortune-telling is cards, either the common variety or Tarot cards, which originated in Israel. Tea-leaves are read widely and with some measure...