Word: sana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...
...enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed the payroll. In a surprising show of initiative, Badr rushed to Sana, fired the governor, the army commander and the police chief, and executed nine officers...
Medieval surgeons and barbers believed in the equation, corpus sanum=mens sana. This thought did not die with the Renaissance, for it is perpetuated today in Harvard athletics. Every year, in the belief that intellectual superiority and athletic interest go hand in hand, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pours hundreds of thousands of dollars into the undergraduate sports program...
From the time he took in the New York skyline in 1952, Tambi thought of erecting an intercontinental "skyscraper of poetry." Poetry London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line...
...Mens sana in corpore sano!" proclaimed Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History and chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports...