Word: glaber
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...look back in history to see that that humanity has survived its many travails over the past millennium. Furthermore, the predictions of the French priest Raoul Glaber that Satan would be unleashed upon us and that the great Apocalypse would arrive last January have not come true. We can also take comfort in what one of our forebears thought of the passage of the last millennium, one thousand years...
Harvard Club of New York City: Roy J. Glaber, New York, N. Y.; Raymond Keloski, Staton Island, N. Y.; Dener M. Lion, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Arthur H. Schulz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Donald Rausch, Madison, N. J.; and Watts Bigelow Jr., New York...
...expatriate German journalist, retells the gladiators' story in an ironical novel which deftly suggests the case of modern Germany, less deftly suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...
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