Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they usually pick the Sumerians, who built imposing cities, including Abraham's Ur of the Chaldees, in southern Mesopotamia about 3000 B.C. But the Sumerians did not think of themselves as native Mesopotamians: according to their legends, they came from a place called Dilmun, where lived Ziusudra, the sole survivor of the Flood. Last week Danish archaeologists were digging into the ruins of a city on oil-rich Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf. They think it is Dilmun, the mysterious "home city of the Land of Sumer...
...Often there is no room at first for a 'loyal opposition,' for its sole aim after independence could only be overthrow of the independence movement itself," says Tanganyika's Nyerere. Mboya, too, is a professed democrat, but he does not guarantee that pure Western-style freedom can be achieved. "I am flattered by those who demand perfection from us," he says. "The paraphernalia of Western democracy are not necessarily best suited for Africa . . . New nations are bound to experiment with the institutions they inherit...
...will get more enjoyment than anyone out of the catalogue is hard-eyed, aggressive Joseph Neckermann, 47, founder and sole owner of the company...
Finally, I don't believe that educational policy - without any qualification whatsoever - can or should be the sole prerogative of the teachers. Educational organizations have been ineffective in developing broad educational policy. They should not be a law unto themselves in this regard. Right now the problem is not whether they can dominate educational policy but whether they can influence it at all on important points...
...hour on NBC last week, Actor Art Carney kept dialing telephone numbers, bugging long-distance operators, playing the sole part in a TV play about a sinking alcoholic. Desperately using the phone as a lifeline to the real world, he talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney...