Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry at night." Abbane was a Kabyle, a member of a rugged mountain race that looks down on the other Berber tribes and especially on the Arab Algerians of the cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years; they battled the Arab and Turkish invaders of North Africa; led by a "Joan of Arc" called Lalla Fatma, they fought the conquering French longer than any other tribe in Algeria. Kabyles in the tens of thousands served in the French army in both world wars...
While his body lay in state at Rome's North American College, prelates and priests, diplomats and laymen filed by his bier. Mourning alone in the Vatican was an old friend of his days as a young priest in Rome, Pope Pius XII-forbidden by papal protocol from visiting anyone, even in death...
...come around some day maybe, with executives whose minds are on the golf course, with spiritual delinquents of all kinds who have been triumphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis as 'the new leisure.' We may lack a few of the refinements of Rome's final decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. And, if you want to, you can buy for $275 a jeweled pillbox, with a built-in musical alarm that reminds you -but not too harshly-that...
...Cannot Be Loved." For some of the ill feeling that emerged there could be no remedy. The U.S. had grown to a position of world power similar to ancient Rome or 19th century Britain. Historically, strength excites fear and dislike. "You cannot be a basic power and be loved," said Ecuador's U.S.-educated ex-President Galo Plaza, with whom Nixon talked at length in Quito...
After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...