Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classical figure of the philosopher, Plato or Seneca, among his students was pressed into service as Christ teaching.The gestures of Ciceronian rhetoric lent authority to the poses of carved apostles; Orpheus with a ram on his shoulders was transformed into Christ the good shep herd. Winged victories became angels. Bacchus turned into the drunken Noah; a late 3rd century carving of Jonah resting under the gourd tree was based on the older Greek image of Endymion asleep. The more refined an early Christian work was, the more subtly it might display its classical affiliations...
Though the gobbles of Thanksgiving turkeys still ring through the hills of Massachusetts, city hall, retailers, charity organizations and religious groups seem determined to ram the Christmas spirit down the throats of Cantabridgians...
...first thing that other college coaches say when they're recruiting is that no one cares about basketball at Harvard. They tell the high school athletes that no one watches the games," explains the 1969 Fordham graduate and Ram basketball star. "Then the high school kids come here and see 40 or 50 people at the game and they get really turned off to the program...
...Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison man between terrorist groups in Europe and the Middle East...
...well, it's tough to expect much on a day better suited for scuba diving. Freshman Walter Diaz turned in another marvelous performance for Harvard, but constantly found himself thwarted by either a timely URI foul just as he was about to break a play, the turf, or a Ram defense that was in a word, stingy...